Anthropic is introducing a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot, Claude, tailored for enterprise customers seeking enhanced security measures and administrative controls. With the launch of Claude Enterprise, Anthropic is entering into direct competition with OpenAI’s business-specific solution, ChatGPT Enterprise, which was released approximately a year ago.
The new Claude Enterprise plan enables businesses to upload their proprietary company knowledge into Anthropic’s AI chatbot, allowing Claude to analyze the information, provide answers to queries, generate graphics and simple web pages, or function as a company-specific AI assistant.
Anthropic seems to be striving to catch up with OpenAI by making Claude available across various platforms where ChatGPT is already established. The company has rolled out several features for Claude that closely resemble those offered by ChatGPT.
“Claude has been operational for businesses for a year now. Frankly, our product has been in the market for a shorter period,” mentioned Anthropic product lead Scott White in a statement to TechCrunch. “However, we are quick to address our customer needs despite having a smaller team.”
In addition to the Claude Team plan introduced in May, Anthropic has also launched mobile apps for Claude on both iOS and Android platforms. Now, it is gearing up to compete with ChatGPT Enterprise, which has gained significant adoption among Fortune 500 companies.
The key differentiators of Claude Enterprise include a context window of 500,000 tokens, allowing Anthropic’s models to process substantial amounts of data in a single prompt compared to the capabilities of ChatGPT Enterprise. Claude Enterprise also offers Projects and Artifacts, collaborative workspaces that support multiple users collaborating on editing content, ideal for businesses working on intricate projects with diverse data sources.
Furthermore, the Enterprise plan integrates with GitHub, enabling engineering teams to synchronize their GitHub repositories with Claude for enhanced coding purposes. This integration allows Anthropic’s models to directly access customers’ codebases, facilitating tasks such as onboarding new engineers, developing new features, or resolving coding issues.
Similar to ChatGPT’s Enterprise plan, Claude Enterprise allows businesses to designate a primary owner for their workspace, with the ability to assign different levels of access to projects and monitor activity for security and compliance purposes.
Anthropic emphasizes that Claude Enterprise does not train on customer data, maintaining data security and confidentiality. Pricing details for Claude Enterprise have not been disclosed, but it is positioned as a higher-tier offering compared to the Team plan, providing larger context windows and higher rate limits for Enterprise customers.
While Anthropic has collaborated with early adopters like GitLab, Midjourney, IG Group, and Menlo Ventures during a private beta testing phase, achieving widespread adoption will be crucial for the success of products like Claude Enterprise. AI model developers face pricing pressures, and business-specific plans like Claude Enterprise offer a revenue-generating opportunity, although broad adoption is required to cover the costs associated with inference.
