Anthropic is unveiling a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot, Claude, specifically designed for enterprise customers seeking enhanced administrative controls and improved security. Claude Enterprise is set to rival OpenAI’s business-focused solution, ChatGPT Enterprise, which launched about a year ago.
With Claude Enterprise, businesses can upload confidential company knowledge into Anthropic’s AI chatbot. This allows Claude to analyze the information, answer queries, generate graphics and web pages, or function as a tailored AI assistant dedicated to the company.
Anthropic seems to be playing catch-up with OpenAI, striving to place Claude in the same spaces where ChatGPT already excels. The startup has introduced several features that closely mirror OpenAI's offerings for ChatGPT.
“Our goal is to respond to customer demands quickly, despite having a smaller team,” said Scott White, Anthropic's product lead. “Claude has been available for companies for about a year, but we are adapting rapidly to meet our users’ evolving needs.”
In May, Anthropic launched the Claude Team plan, akin to ChatGPT’s team plan, allowing small businesses to collaborate on projects. Since then, Anthropic has rolled out mobile apps for Claude on iOS and Android, and is now up against ChatGPT Enterprise, which has gained significant traction among Fortune 500 firms.
However, Claude Enterprise stands out from current market offerings in several important aspects. Notably, its context window supports up to 500,000 tokens, enabling Anthropic’s models to process vast amounts of information—up to 200,000 lines of code, multiple lengthy documents, or two-hour audio transcripts—all in a single prompt. This exceeds the context windows provided by ChatGPT Enterprise and Claude’s Team plan, both of which offer less than half that capacity.
Claude Enterprise features Projects and Artifacts, collaborative workspaces where multiple users can upload and modify content, making it ideal for complex business projects that involve extensive data sources and team collaboration.
Additionally, the Enterprise plan includes GitHub integration, allowing engineering teams to sync their repositories directly with Claude. This functionality boosts coding capabilities, as Claude Sonnet 3.5 has become popular for various coding applications, from onboarding new engineers to developing features and addressing bugs.
Similar to ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude Enterprise enables businesses to designate a primary owner for their company workspace. This owner can manage access levels to projects and information within Claude, as well as monitor activity for compliance and security purposes.
Like OpenAI, Anthropic assures that it does not train on customer data from Claude Enterprise, which is crucial for businesses wanting to safeguard their sensitive information from becoming part of Claude or ChatGPT’s knowledge base in the future.
Although Anthropic has not disclosed the pricing for Claude Enterprise, White indicated that it is more costly than the Claude Team plan, which is priced at $30 per month per member. This higher cost reflects the increased capabilities and benefits that enterprise customers receive, including larger context windows and elevated rate limits. (Notably, OpenAI also keeps its enterprise pricing confidential.)
White mentioned that Anthropic has been in a private beta phase for months, working with early adopters like GitLab, Midjourney, IG Group, and Menlo Ventures, which is an investor in Anthropic.
Moving forward, broader adoption will be critical. AI developers like Anthropic are facing pressure to offer API access at competitive prices. While products like Claude Enterprise present a promising revenue pathway, widespread adoption is essential to offset the high costs associated with inference. As of now, it remains uncertain if any AI model developers are turning a profit with these business-specific offerings.
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