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Claude for Enterprise and Teams is the collective name for Anthropic's business-tier subscriptions to its Claude assistant, comprising the Team plan, the Enterprise plan, and several segment-specific variants such as Claude for Education and Claude for Small Business.[1][2] Anthropic introduced the Team plan on 1 May 2024 at a list price of $30 per user per month with a five-seat minimum, then announced the Enterprise plan on 4 September 2024 with a 500,000-token context window, native GitHub integration, single sign-on, and role-based permissions.[3][4] By the second quarter of 2026 the family had grown to include separate offerings for higher education, federal government, healthcare, and small business, and Anthropic reported that roughly 80% of its revenue came from business customers.[5][6] The product line is positioned as a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu plans and to Google's Gemini for Workspace, with security and compliance posture (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, HIPAA-ready, FedRAMP High via cloud partners) as a primary differentiator.[7][8]
Anthropic launched Claude Team on 1 May 2024 as its first multi-seat product, priced at $30 per user per month with a minimum of five users, alongside a free iOS application announced the same day.[3][9] The Team tier extended the Pro tier's 200K-token context window and added shared usage caps, administrative controls for billing and user management, and access to the full Claude 3 family (Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku).[3] The launch post promised additional collaboration features in subsequent weeks, including citations, integrations with codebases and CRMs, and the ability to co-edit AI-generated documents.[3] The Team plan was Anthropic's first product to bundle administrative tooling rather than only per-user chat access, and it appeared roughly nine months after OpenAI's August 2023 launch of ChatGPT Enterprise.[10]
Anthropic announced the Enterprise plan in a blog post dated 4 September 2024, with general availability following shortly afterward.[4][11] The plan introduced four headline capabilities relative to Team: a 500,000-token context window (up from 200K, and double ChatGPT Enterprise's then-standard 128K window), a native GitHub repository connector in beta, single sign-on with domain capture, and role-based access with fine-grained permissions.[4][11] Anthropic stated that audit logs and SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) provisioning would arrive in "the weeks ahead," and that conversations and content would not be used to train Claude by default.[4] Launch customers named in coverage included GitLab, Boston Consulting Group, Midjourney, and North Highland.[4][11][12]
In April 2025 Anthropic introduced Claude for Education, a separate university-oriented variant launched with Northeastern University as the design partner alongside the London School of Economics and Political Science and Champlain College; the announcement highlighted "Learning mode," which guides students through reasoning steps rather than giving direct answers.[13][14] Around the same period Anthropic launched the Max plan, an individual tier priced from $100 per month for a 5x usage multiplier and $200 per month for 20x, sitting between Pro and Team in capacity.[15][16]
Three further expansions arrived in the summer of 2025. On 2 April 2025 Anthropic announced that Claude on Google Cloud's Vertex AI had been authorized for FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 2 workloads.[17] On 11 June 2025 Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 and Claude 3 Haiku on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) received FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 authorizations.[18] On 9 July 2025 Anthropic published "Advancing Claude for Education," announcing Canvas LTI support, a Wiley integration for peer-reviewed content, a Panopto lecture-transcript connector, and new partner institutions including the University of San Francisco School of Law and Northumbria University.[19] In mid-July 2025 Claude for Enterprise became purchasable directly through the AWS Marketplace at a published list price of $40 per user per month with a 25-seat minimum.[20]
On 14 October 2025 Anthropic and Salesforce announced an expanded partnership making Claude a "preferred model" inside Salesforce's Agentforce 360 platform for financial services, healthcare, cybersecurity, and life sciences, with CrowdStrike and RBC Wealth Management cited as early adopters, plus deeper Slack integration via Model Context Protocol servers.[21] Two days later, on 16 October 2025, Anthropic launched Claude Skills, a portable mechanism for packaging instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads on demand; Skills shipped with pre-built abilities for PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and PDF document generation and added organization-wide skill management for Team and Enterprise customers.[22] On 20 October 2025 the Microsoft 365 connector became available for Team and Enterprise plans, allowing Claude read-only access to Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams; the connector was later expanded to Free, Pro, and Max plans.[23]
Anthropic released Claude Cowork as a research preview on 12 January 2026, initially limited to Max subscribers, as a desktop assistant that operates over user-designated folders.[24] On 24 February 2026 the company announced a wider enterprise release of Cowork with connectors for Google Drive, Gmail, DocuSign, and FactSet plus customizable plugins for finance, engineering, and human resources.[25] On 9 April 2026 Cowork reached general availability with six additional enterprise features released alongside the public beta of Claude Managed Agents and policy controls in Claude Code.[26] Claude for Small Business followed on 13 May 2026 as the fifth market-specific Claude offering of 2025-2026, bundling 15 pre-configured workflows and 15 skills across QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365.[27]
As of May 2026 Anthropic publishes the following self-serve tiers on its pricing page, with prices in US dollars.[1]
| Plan | List price | Seat range | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1 | Individual entry tier |
| Pro | $17/month annual or $20 monthly | 1 | Individual paid tier |
| Max 5x | From $100/month | 1 | High-usage individual |
| Max 20x | From $200/month | 1 | Highest individual tier |
| Team (standard) | $20/seat annual or $25 monthly | 5 to 150 | Small to mid-size teams |
| Team (premium) | $100/seat annual or $125 monthly | 5 to 150 | Higher-usage teams |
| Enterprise | $20/seat plus usage at API rates | Custom | Large organizations |
The Enterprise SKU sold via AWS Marketplace was listed at $40 per user per month with a 25-seat minimum at launch in July 2025.[20] Education and Small Business pricing is not published; both are quoted by sales or contracted as private offers through the cloud marketplaces.[13][27] Anthropic also runs a "OneGov" program offering Claude to US federal agencies for $1 per agency, separate from the commercial tiers.[28]
All paid Claude tiers provide access to the current Claude model family, which as of May 2026 includes Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Claude Haiku 4.5.[1] The Enterprise plan increases the conversation context window to 500,000 tokens, which Anthropic describes as roughly equivalent to "hundreds of sales transcripts, dozens of 100+ page documents, or medium-sized codebases."[4] The Team and Pro plans operate at the standard 200,000-token context that Anthropic introduced with Claude 2.1 and carried forward across the Claude 3, 4, and Opus 4.x lines.[4][29]
Team standard seats deliver "more usage than Pro," Team premium seats deliver 5x more usage than standard seats, and Enterprise organizations can purchase usage that scales with model and task at API rates.[1] Max 5x and Max 20x provide their stated multiples of Pro usage to individuals.[15]
Both Team and Enterprise plans include the Projects feature, which Anthropic introduced for Pro and Team users in June 2024 to take advantage of Claude's 200K-token context.[30] Each Project is a persistent workspace into which users upload documents, code, or other files; Claude treats those uploads as the knowledge base for subsequent chats and applies any custom instructions configured for the workspace.[30] Enterprise Projects support up to roughly "100K lines of code" in their workspace knowledge.[2] Artifacts, the inline rendering surface for code, documents, diagrams, and HTML, is available across paid tiers and was part of the Enterprise launch positioning in September 2024.[4]
The Enterprise plan launched in September 2024 with a native GitHub connector, designed for engineering teams to sync repositories so Claude can iterate on features, debug, and onboard engineers against actual project source.[4][31] Subsequent connectors include Microsoft 365 (Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams; launched 20 October 2025 for Team and Enterprise, later extended to other tiers), Atlassian (Confluence and Jira), Cloudflare, Intercom, and a Salesforce/Slack pairing announced 14 October 2025.[21][23][2] Custom connectors can be built using Model Context Protocol, Anthropic's open specification first published in November 2024.[22]
Claude Skills, launched 16 October 2025, lets organizations package YAML and Markdown definitions plus optional supporting files into reusable abilities that Claude loads progressively when needed.[22] Team and Enterprise plans include organization-wide skill management, a directory of partner-built skills, and the ability to publish skills via the open Agent Skills specification that Anthropic released on 18 December 2025.[22][32] Box, Canva, and Rakuten were among the early enterprise testers cited at launch.[22]
The Enterprise plan provides single sign-on with SAML 2.0 or OIDC, domain capture for automatic email-based assignment, fine-grained role-based access permissions, SCIM provisioning for automated user lifecycle, and IP allowlisting.[4][33] Audit logs cover roughly 30 event types including SSO login and logout, user invitations and deletions, project create or delete and visibility changes, conversation create and delete, and file uploads; Organization Owners can export 180 days of audit data from Organization settings.[33] Audit log exports return event identifiers but not the title or content of chats; chat input and output exports run through a separate Primary Owner data-export path.[33] Team plans include SSO, central billing, and admin controls; SCIM, audit logs, the Compliance API, custom data retention, IP allowlisting, HIPAA-readiness, and the optional Claude Security add-on are reserved for Enterprise.[1]
Anthropic states that it does not train Claude on Team, Enterprise, Education, or API customer content by default.[4][34] For commercial API customers and Claude Enterprise organizations, Anthropic offers a Zero Data Retention (ZDR) arrangement under which inputs and outputs are not stored at rest after the API response is returned, subject to legal exceptions and a two-year retention window for safety-classifier-flagged content.[34] Per Anthropic's privacy documentation, the Team and Enterprise web interfaces are not ZDR-eligible by default; ZDR applies to eligible Anthropic APIs and to Claude Code when used through Claude Enterprise with ZDR enabled.[34]
Anthropic publishes its compliance posture through a Trust Portal at trust.anthropic.com and a privacy support article.[7][8] As of May 2026 the company holds:
Federal authorizations cover Claude when consumed through hyperscaler partners. Claude on Google Cloud's Vertex AI received FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 2 authorization on 2 April 2025.[17] On 11 June 2025, Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 and Claude 3 Haiku on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) regions received FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 authorization, extended later to additional Claude models.[18] A dedicated "Claude for Government" SKU also targets federal agencies under the GSA OneGov program at $1 per agency for one year.[28]
The HIPAA-ready offering applies only to Enterprise plans with an executed BAA, processed via a click-to-accept flow inside the workspace settings; Free, Pro, Max, and Team tiers are not BAA-eligible on the Claude consumer surface.[35] Claude for Healthcare, announced in January 2026, packages additional connectors to clinical and coding systems within the HIPAA-ready envelope.[36]
Claude for Education launched 2 April 2025 with Northeastern University, the London School of Economics, and Champlain College as the initial campus-wide partners, providing seats to roughly 50,000 students, faculty, and staff across Northeastern's 13 campuses.[13][14] The offering includes "Learning mode," a Projects-based feature that prompts Claude to ask Socratic-style questions and surface conceptual principles rather than deliver completed answers, alongside administrative tooling for enrollment analysis and standard inquiry automation.[13] Anthropic joined Internet2 and announced an integration roadmap with Instructure's Canvas LMS at launch.[13]
The 9 July 2025 "Advancing Claude for Education" update added a Canvas LTI integration so Claude is available directly inside Canvas courses, a Wiley MCP integration for peer-reviewed academic content, and a Panopto integration that lets students reference lecture transcripts in chat; the University of San Francisco School of Law and Northumbria University joined as new campus partners.[19] The same update expanded the Claude Campus Ambassadors program tenfold and introduced "Claude Builder Clubs."[19] Anthropic also launched a free AI Fluency course at this time.[19] Education conversations are excluded from training by default, and self-serve institutional data exports are restricted.[19] The launch positioned Claude for Education against OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu, released in May 2024.[37]
Claude for Government provides Claude in environments authorized up to FedRAMP High for federal civilian agencies, available either through dedicated Anthropic-managed channels or via Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) and Google Cloud's Assured Workloads.[17][18] In a 2025 OneGov procurement announced through the General Services Administration, Anthropic offered Claude to US federal agencies for $1 per agency for one year, alongside earlier announcements extending the offer to all three branches of the federal government.[28]
Claude for Small Business launched 13 May 2026 as a packaged set of agentic workflows and pre-built skills built on top of Claude Cowork.[27] The product ships with 15 ready-to-run workflows (payroll planning, month-end close, business performance monitoring, marketing campaign management) and 15 plug-and-play skills spanning finance, operations, sales, marketing, HR, and customer service.[27] Native connectors include Intuit QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365; permissions in the connected applications carry through, so users only see what they can already access.[27] Anthropic launched the package alongside a free "AI Fluency for Small Business" course co-developed with PayPal and a 10-city "Claude SMB Tour" of free half-day workshops beginning in Chicago.[27]
Anthropic introduced healthcare-focused tooling in two waves. A "Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences" announcement positioned Claude as an option for HIPAA-regulated workloads under BAA via AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.[36] Claude for Healthcare, announced 11 January 2026, added connectors to CMS data, the ICD-10 code set, and the National Provider Identifier registry for prior authorization, medical coding, and benefits adjudication use cases within the HIPAA-ready envelope.[36]
Anthropic has publicly named several large enterprise customers through launch posts and customer-story pages. GitLab, Boston Consulting Group, North Highland, and Midjourney were the launch reference customers for the Enterprise plan in September 2024.[4][11] Subsequent press coverage of Anthropic's revenue growth has cited Netflix, Spotify, KPMG, L'Oréal, Salesforce, Smartsheet, Moody's, Lyft, Crowdin, and Honeycomb as Claude customers across various product tiers.[5][6] Anthropic itself disclosed that eight of the Fortune 10 and roughly 70% of the Fortune 100 were Claude customers as of early 2026, and that more than 1,000 customers were spending over $1 million per year on Claude by April 2026, double the 500 figure reported with the company's Series G financing two months earlier.[5] Salesforce's 14 October 2025 partnership announcement cited CrowdStrike and RBC Wealth Management as early Agentforce-with-Claude adopters in regulated industries.[21]
ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI's competing tier, launched in August 2023, predating the Claude Team plan by roughly nine months and Claude Enterprise by about a year.[10] At launch ChatGPT Enterprise removed usage caps, offered a 32K-token context (later increased), used a SOC 2-compliant infrastructure that excluded customer data from training, and included an admin console, SSO with domain verification, and an analytics dashboard.[10] OpenAI does not publish ChatGPT Enterprise pricing; industry estimates have cited $40 to $60 per user per month depending on volume and term.[10] OpenAI later introduced ChatGPT Edu in May 2024 and ChatGPT Business, sitting between the consumer Plus and Enterprise tiers.[37]
Google's Gemini for Workspace took a different commercial path. Originally sold as a $20 or $30 per user per month add-on to Google Workspace Business and Enterprise SKUs respectively, Google integrated Gemini into all paid Workspace plans on 15 January 2025 (Business) and 29 January 2025 (Enterprise), raising base subscription prices by roughly 17 to 22% on 17 March 2025 in lieu of the separate add-on charge.[38] Higher-tier Gemini access through dedicated AI Expanded and AI Ultra SKUs adds $20 per user per month and approximately $250 per user per month respectively.[38] Gemini models from the 1.5 era carried a 1 million-token context window (extended to 2 million during preview), comfortably exceeding Claude Enterprise's 500K window on raw token count.[11]
The three offerings differ primarily on (1) context window size (Gemini largest, Claude Enterprise next, ChatGPT Enterprise smaller by default), (2) packaging (ChatGPT Enterprise and Claude Enterprise are stand-alone subscriptions, Gemini is bundled into Workspace), (3) HIPAA-readiness (Claude Enterprise and Google Workspace Enterprise are HIPAA-eligible via BAA; ChatGPT Enterprise also offers a BAA), and (4) cloud-marketplace presence (Claude Enterprise is the only one available directly via AWS Marketplace at a published per-seat price as of mid-2025).[7][8][20][35]
Industry analyst coverage of the September 2024 Enterprise launch focused on the 500K context window and the GitHub integration; Constellation Research's Andy Thurai called the window "among the largest" while noting that Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro then held the high mark.[11] Coverage emphasized that Anthropic had been "remarkably late" to a productized enterprise tier given that ChatGPT Enterprise had been available for roughly a year, but that the GitHub connector and Projects-driven workflows distinguished the offering for software-engineering use cases.[11][31]
Subsequent commercial traction has been documented through Anthropic's own revenue disclosures and through cloud-marketplace metrics. Anthropic reported an annualized revenue run rate of approximately $87 million in January 2024, $1 billion by December 2024, and $30 billion by April 2026, with roughly 80% of revenue from business customers and Claude Code alone accounting for "over half" of certain enterprise revenue lines.[5][6] By October 2025 Anthropic reported more than 300,000 business customers.[5] Cloud-marketplace sales through AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure have been a substantial contributor to that growth, particularly after Claude for Enterprise's July 2025 AWS Marketplace listing at $40 per user per month.[20]
The product line has also drawn scrutiny on labor-market and privacy fronts. Anthropic publishes an "Anthropic Economic Index" tracking how Claude is used in occupational tasks, and the privacy treatment of enterprise data, including the boundary between which surfaces are ZDR-eligible and which are not, has been a recurring topic in compliance reviews of the platform.[34]
The umbrella naming has shifted as the product line has expanded. The original September 2024 launch post used the term "Claude for Enterprise" alongside "Claude Enterprise Plan."[4] Subsequent material consolidated business-tier marketing into "Claude for Work," covering Team, Enterprise, Education, Government, Healthcare, and Small Business, with the consumer surface ("claude.ai") and developer surface (the Anthropic API) sitting alongside it.[1][2] As of May 2026 the pricing page distinguishes "Individual" plans (Free, Pro, Max) from "Team" plans (Team standard, Team premium, Enterprise), while segment offerings (Education, Government, Healthcare, Small Business) are presented as packages on top of those tiers rather than as separate price columns.[1]