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Work Claude does in channels bills to your organization’s usage balance, not to individual seats. The spend limit is a cap you set on how much of that balance Claude in Slack can use each billing period. (DMs are separate: a DM bills to the user’s own seat, not to this balance.)

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Whether this step is required depends on your plan

Your planWhat you need to do here
TeamRequired, before anything runs. A Team plan has no usage balance until you buy credits, and Claude won’t respond in channels until it’s funded. Buy credits, then set a spend limit so Claude in Slack can’t drain the whole balance.
Enterprise (invoiced)Recommended. Usage bills to your invoice with no upper bound until you set a spend limit. Set one to cap exposure during the pilot.

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Set the spend limit

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Open the usage page

Go to claude.ai/admin-settings/usage/claude-in-slack.
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Enter an amount

Enter an amount in your organization’s billing currency. The spend limit resets at the start of each billing period and applies across every paired workspace. You can change it any time.
There’s no published per-task cost guidance. For a pilot, set a spend limit you’re comfortable with for the first billing period, then watch the per-channel usage breakdown on the same page and adjust.

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What happens when the spend limit is reached

When usage reaches the spend limit, Claude stops and tells the requester in the thread that it couldn’t finish. The requester can ask an admin to raise the limit. The spend limit counts usage at list price. If your organization has a negotiated discount, that discount applies at invoice time, not to the cap.

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Per-channel limits

Per-channel limits and the per-channel spend breakdown are on the same usage page. See Set spend limits for the full set of controls.