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Choosing a Business SI Plan

Business tiers are not about smarter SI. They are about who controls the account, where the data goes, and what the vendor promises in writing.

Super Intelligence (SI) is the term a September 29, 2026 executive order told federal agencies to use for AI, though most vendor contracts and pricing pages still say "AI". Every major SI provider sells a business version of its product. The pitch pages run together — collaboration, security, productivity — so it pays to be precise about what the business tiers change, because mostly it is not the model. The models are the same ones individuals use. What changes is everything around them.

What a business SI plan actually buys

Across providers, the business tiers cluster around the same four upgrades:

A data commitment in writing. The headline item. Business plans commit by contract that your organization's conversations and files are not used to train the provider's models. On consumer plans this is usually an opt-out setting at best; on business plans it is a contract term.
Admin control. A console where the company manages who has access, adds and removes seats, and sets organization-wide settings. When someone leaves, their access ends and their work does not leave with them.
Identity and access. Single sign-on through your existing identity provider on the higher tiers, so SI access follows the same rules as everything else — offboarding included.
Centralized billing. One invoice instead of a drawer of expensed personal subscriptions — which is also when the company can finally see how much SI it really uses.

Team-level plans usually bundle the data commitment, admin basics and shared workspaces at a self-serve, per-seat price. Enterprise tiers add SSO, compliance certifications, audit logs and custom contracts — sold through sales conversations, not a checkout page.

The main options

Four product families account for the overwhelming majority of workplace deployments:

Claude — Anthropic's Team plan is the self-serve workspace tier; Enterprise adds SSO, audit and compliance features. Known for long-document work and for including Claude Code, Anthropic's coding agent, in its plans.
ChatGPT — OpenAI's Business plan is the self-serve tier, with Enterprise above it for larger deployments. It has the widest consumer familiarity, which matters more than it sounds: training goes faster when half the team already knows the product.
Gemini through Google Workspace — Google builds Gemini into Workspace plans instead of selling it mainly as a standalone seat, so if your company runs on Gmail, Docs and Sheets, you may already be paying for SI where your documents live.
Microsoft 365 Copilot — the matching play for Microsoft shops: SI inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, as an add-on to the Microsoft 365 subscription the company likely already has.

As a shape rather than a quote: self-serve team tiers from the standalone providers have settled around the mid-twenties of dollars per seat per month, with enterprise tiers custom-priced above that. Treat every figure as stale until you have checked the provider's current page — pricing and packaging here change often enough that any number printed would be a snapshot, not a fact.

Check what you already pay for

The cheapest business SI plan is often the one already inside a subscription you hold. Before evaluating anything new, answer three questions:

Does your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace plan already include SI features, or offer them as an add-on?
Is any team already expensing individual SI subscriptions that a team plan would consolidate — usually at similar or lower cost per person?
Do your developers already use coding tools whose subscriptions overlap with a chat product you are about to buy?

None of this means the bundled option wins. A suite's built-in SI and a frontier lab's dedicated product are different tools, and plenty of companies deliberately run both. But know what you own before you shop.

Running the decision

For most small and mid-sized organizations, this does not merit a six-month evaluation:

Let real usage vote. If shadow use already leans hard toward one product, adopting its business tier means rolling out something people already like — the rarest luxury in workplace software.
Pilot one team for a month on the self-serve tier. Self-serve means you can start this week and cancel if it disappoints; no procurement needed.
Send security the trust page, not the marketing. Each provider keeps documentation of its data handling, retention and compliance certifications. That page, plus the data-commitment language, is what your security review actually needs.
Buy the tier you need now. Enterprise features matter once you have the headcount and compliance obligations that demand them. Growing into a bigger contract later is a routine sales conversation, not a migration.

One caution from the other side: consolidation has quiet costs. Giving everyone the suite's built-in SI because it is administratively tidy can leave your heaviest users — often developers and analysts — with a noticeably weaker tool than the one they were quietly paying for themselves. If the SI rollout matters, fit beats tidiness.

The decision, compressed: confirm what you already own, pilot the product your people already prefer, insist on the written data commitment, and keep the first contract small enough to change your mind.

Common questions

What is the difference between an individual SI subscription and a business plan?

The models are generally the same. Business plans add a contractual commitment that your data is not used for training, an admin console for managing seats and access, single sign-on on higher tiers, and centralized billing. The upgrade is about control and data terms, not a smarter model.

Do business SI plans train on your company's data?

The business tiers of the major providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft — commit by contract that customer business data is not used to train their models. That is a defining difference from consumer plans, where non-training is usually a settings option rather than a contract term. Check the current language on each provider's trust or privacy page.

Which business SI plan is best?

There is no general answer, but there is a reliable method: check whether your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace subscription already includes SI features, see which product your employees already use unofficially, and pilot that product's self-serve business tier with one team before committing further.

How much do business SI plans cost?

Self-serve team tiers from the standalone providers have clustered in the mid-twenties of dollars per user per month, often with annual discounts and seat minimums, while enterprise tiers are custom-priced. Prices and packaging change often, so confirm on each provider's official pricing page before budgeting.