Claude Enterprise Plan: Features, Security, and Pricing

Claude Enterprise is Anthropic's top organizational tier, built to deploy Claude across an entire company with enterprise-grade security, governance, and admin controls. Every seat includes Claude on web, desktop, and mobile plus Claude Code and Cowork, and it adds SSO, SCIM, audit logs, role-based access, and configurable data retention on top of the Team plan.

Seat minimums, governance features, and the access-only seat fee verified 31 July 2026 against Anthropic's Enterprise plan help article.

We run this site's content and code pipelines across a stack of Claude subscriptions, so we've mapped exactly where each tier stops making sense and the next one starts. Below we cover what Enterprise includes, how it differs from Team, how the pricing actually works, and the security and compliance posture that decides whether a regulated organization can adopt it at all.

What the Claude Enterprise plan is

It is Anthropic's top organizational tier, sitting above Pro, Max, and Team. Every seat keeps the full product — web, desktop, mobile, Claude Code, and Cowork — and adds the identity, governance, and data controls a large security team requires.

Anthropic sells four paid rungs — Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise — and Enterprise sits at the very top. Where the Team plan wraps a handful of people under shared billing, the Enterprise plan is designed for rolling Claude out company-wide with the identity, governance, and data controls a large security team demands before it will sign off.

Every Enterprise seat still gets the full product surface: Claude on web, desktop, and mobile, plus Claude Code in the terminal and Cowork for agentic knowledge work — all running on current models including Claude Opus 5. Anthropic documents the complete scope in its Enterprise plan help article. On top of that shared product, Enterprise layers the governance features — single sign-on, directory provisioning, audit trails, and retention rules — that turn a pile of individual logins into a managed deployment. If you're still weighing tiers, our complete Claude pricing breakdown maps every plan side by side.

What it adds over the Team plan

Both tiers share Projects, an admin console, and the no-training commitment. The upper tier removes the 150-seat cap and adds SCIM provisioning, advanced audit logs, fine-grained roles, and configurable retention — while moving usage off the seat price.

Team and Enterprise share the same collaboration DNA: shared Projects, an admin console, and a contractual promise that your conversations don't train Anthropic's models. The differences are governance and scale. Claude Team caps at 150 seats with usage bundled into the seat price; Enterprise removes the cap and adds the provisioning and compliance tooling large organizations need — but it changes how usage is billed.

The two lines that matter most are provisioning and billing. SCIM connects Claude to your identity provider so accounts appear and disappear automatically as people join and leave — a hard requirement once you're managing hundreds of seats. Usage billing flips the model entirely: on Team the seat price includes usage, while on Enterprise the seat fee covers access only and every token is billed on top at API rates.

The governance features at a glance

The bundle Team does not expose: SSO, SCIM auto-provisioning, audit logs, role-based access control, configurable retention down to zero, Compliance and Analytics APIs, customer-managed encryption keys, and an option to keep inference inside US regions.

The reason organizations move up is a specific bundle of governance and security features that Team simply doesn't expose. Here's the core of what Claude for enterprise adds.

A note on the context window: Enterprise gets 500K tokens in chat and up to 1M in Claude Code on current Opus models. That headline used to be Enterprise-exclusive, but Anthropic has since extended the 500K chat window to every paid plan — so the larger window is a nice-to-have here, not the reason to buy. The governance features above are.

How Claude Enterprise pricing works

Two routes: self-serve from 20 seats paid by card or ACH in USD, or sales-assisted from 50 seats with invoicing and a BAA. On both, the seat fee buys access only — every token is billed separately at API rates.

Enterprise pricing works differently from every tier below it, and this trips up most buyers. There are two ways to sign up, and both share one rule: the seat fee buys access, not tokens.

The self-serve path lets a company buy Enterprise directly starting at 20 seats, paying with a card or ACH in USD. The sales-assisted path is the traditional custom, contact-sales route: it requires 50 seats and adds invoicing, non-USD currencies, HIPAA readiness with a Business Associate Agreement, and a dedicated customer success contact.

On both paths the seat is priced per user per month and billed annually — but usage isn't included. Every token your team consumes in chat, Claude Code, or Cowork is billed separately at standard API rates on top of the seat cost, so total anthropic enterprise spend scales with real usage rather than sitting at a flat number. To keep that predictable, admins can set spend limits at both the organization and individual-user level. If it's really one heavy user rather than an org, Claude Max is the cheaper way to buy pure usage without the seat and governance overhead.

Security and compliance posture

AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, SSO plus SCIM for identity, and no model training on your prompts — contractual rather than a toggle. Staff cannot read conversations by default, and retention is configurable down to zero.

For most buyers the deciding factor isn't features — it's whether the security team will approve it. The security posture rests on encryption everywhere, strict access defaults, and a no-training guarantee that's contractual rather than a toggle you have to trust.

Two points deserve emphasis. First, no model training on your organization's prompts or responses — it's written into the contract, not a default that can silently flip. Second, Anthropic staff cannot read your conversations by default, and customer-managed encryption keys plus a US-only inference option give regulated teams extra control. Where the requirement goes further and model traffic has to stay inside your own cloud account, running Claude Code through Amazon Bedrock keeps requests and billing within your AWS boundary instead. Anthropic details the broader program on its enterprise product page. The caveat we always add: real-world safety still depends on your setup — a signed DPA, sensible retention rules, tight access controls, and staff trained on what data belongs in a prompt.

Who should choose this tier

Choose it when governance forces the move: enforced SSO, directory-driven provisioning, audit evidence, or a signed BAA. Also when you pass Team's 150-seat ceiling, or want usage billed transparently at API rates instead of bundled.

Enterprise is for organizations where the constraint is governance, not seat count. If your security or compliance team requires SSO enforcement, directory-driven provisioning, audit evidence, or a signed BAA, no lower tier will clear the bar — those controls only exist on Enterprise. It also fits companies past the 150-seat Team ceiling, or any team that wants usage billed transparently at API rates instead of bundled into a flat seat price.

If none of that applies — you're under 150 people, you don't need SCIM or HIPAA, and bundled usage is simpler to budget — Team almost certainly covers you, and a solo power user is better served by Max or Claude Pro. The honest test: adopt Claude for enterprise when a compliance requirement or headcount forces it, and stay on Team until then.

The quick version:

• Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, and full audit logs over Team
• No 150-seat cap, and data retention configurable down to zero
• AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, no training on your data
• Seats are quoted per user and billed annually; usage is billed on top at API rates

For example, a 500-seat firm moved to Enterprise for SCIM and audit logs, then provisioned all 500 accounts through their identity provider in 1 afternoon.

Claude pricing at a glance

Claude is free at the entry tier, $20 a month for Pro, and from $100 a month for Max, with API access billed per token. The organisation tiers, Team and Enterprise, are quoted per seat instead.

For the full breakdown of every plan, see our how much Claude costs guide, or Anthropic's official pricing page.