What Claude Code training costs in France
People regularly ask me how what I sell differs from a Claude Code course, so in late August 2026 I went through the public pages of the French training vendors my clients mention most often and wrote down what they charge.
| Vendor | Format | Public price |
|---|---|---|
| OCTO Academy | two days | around €1,910 excl. VAT a head |
| Xebia Academy | two days | €1,795 excl. VAT a head |
| Zenika | per day | €1,050 a day |
| Les-Tilleuls | one day | €900 a participant |
| Human Coders | two days, Cursor course | €1,400 excl. VAT a head |
| Me | one in-house day in your repo | €2,500 excl. VAT a day, whatever the head count |
I put myself in the table because a comparison where the person publishing it does not appear is a rigged comparison. My row reads differently from the others, it is priced per day and not per head, so with eight developers in the room the day comes to a little over €300 a person and with twelve it drops towards €210. It is not the same product for all that, I am not a Qualiopi-certified training body, so it cannot be funded through a French OPCO, and what I run happens in your repo on your tickets rather than on a sample project.
Those numbers come from public pages on a given day, they move, and an in-house session gets negotiated differently from a catalog seat anyway. I am looking at this from the outside, at what is published, and I am happy to be corrected.
The other thing I collected is more interesting than the prices. Across the forty or so French vendors whose catalogs my own agents went through in late August, hooks and skills show up in the syllabus at two of them, and secret handling when it is an agent reading the repo shows up nowhere. Take that for what it is, a crawl proves presence badly, a course can cover a subject perfectly well without naming it in its outline, and it proves absence rather well. If you already teach this and I missed you, write to me, that interests me more than the opposite.
From what I see at my clients, one place where it gets expensive six months later is what I call the harness, when the CLAUDE.md has doubled in size without anyone reading it and the token bill climbs without anyone knowing where from. It is one factor among others, with diminishing returns: on my own repo, cutting a CLAUDE.md from 108 to 30 lines left 22 cases out of 22 on my bench, so length changes nothing, absence does.
The difference between those courses and what I do is one of kind, and I have not taken any of them, I only read what is published. They teach, in their room, on their material, priced per head, which is the right format when a whole team is discovering the tool. I turn up in your repo, on your tickets, which is the format I would pick for a team that wants to start from its own tasks, whether it is just starting or the gain does not show.
The prices of my own formats are on the services page, in euros excluding VAT, same as these, and the format of the day is on the Claude Code training page.