Anthropic develops Claude’s AI models and the products people use directly. It sells access to those models so businesses can build applications. A person chatting with Claude and a bank processing emails can therefore be customers of the same model developer through different products.[3][8]
The company is a public benefit corporation. Co-founder Dario Amodei is chief executive and leads its research direction and strategy. Co-founder Daniela Amodei is president and chair of the board, overseeing work across research, engineering, product, governance and commercial operations.[1]
What customers buy
Individuals can subscribe to a ready-made assistant. Employers can buy access and administration for their workforce. Developers can connect software to the Claude Platform through an application programming interface, or API. This lets software send work to a model and receive a result without somebody operating the chat app.[2]
Three routes to Claude
| Customer | What they buy | Where the work happens |
|---|---|---|
| Individual | Free or paid Claude app access | The person’s conversations and projectsSource 3 |
| Employer | Team or Enterprise access and controls | Employee tools managed by the organisationSource 3 |
| Software builder | Claude Platform usage | The builder’s own application or serviceSource 2 |
Pricing reveals the distinction. As checked on 12 October 2026, the advertised Enterprise price is US$20 per seat per month, billed annually, plus usage at API rates, excluding applicable tax. The seat grants access; the model and task determine the additional consumption. Some other paid plans bundle API credits, so application subscriptions and developer spending can overlap without becoming unlimited access.[3]
Self-serve Enterprise requires a minimum of 20 seats.[2]
The product names are also evolving. On 16 September, Anthropic announced that Cowork and chat were merging into one Claude, beginning with Pro and Max on web, desktop and mobile, with other plans to follow. The change lets a conversation grow into longer work using files, skills and connected applications, rather than requiring the user to choose a separate Cowork workspace first.[4]
Why Claude is available through rival clouds
Anthropic reaches developers directly and through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI and Microsoft Azure. Claude Enterprise is also available through AWS Marketplace, where eligible purchases can count against an organisation’s existing AWS commitment. Buying through an established supplier can ease adoption for companies already using that cloud.[2]
The partners play different roles
| Partner | Relationship with Anthropic |
|---|---|
| Amazon / AWS | Primary training and cloud provider; Claude distribution through Bedrock; investment in Anthropic.Source 5 |
| Google / Broadcom | Agreement for additional TPU computing capacity expected to begin coming online in 2027.Source 6 |
| Microsoft | Claude distribution and Azure computing capacity; commitment to invest up to US$5 billion.Source 7 |
| Nvidia | Hardware and engineering partnership; commitment to invest up to US$10 billion.Source 7 |
The money moves in both directions. Under its April 2026 Amazon agreement, Anthropic committed more than US$100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies. Amazon separately announced a US$5 billion investment in Anthropic, with up to US$20 billion more in future. One transaction buys computing services; the other finances the company. Combining the two into a single sales figure would obscure what each party is doing.[5]
Anthropic also runs workloads across AWS Trainium chips, Google tensor processing units (TPUs) and Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs). That means a Claude product is supported by several hardware relationships. The company says it allocates workloads to appropriate chip platforms, while the Google and Broadcom expansion provides a route to additional capacity starting in 2027.[6]
The business extends beyond selling access
Barclays illustrates those different uses of Claude. Anthropic’s October 1 account says more than 16,000 colleagues had adopted the bank’s internal knowledge assistant, which retrieves relevant information before Claude answers. In Global Markets, another system uses Claude to classify, enrich and route approximately 120,000 incoming emails a day. These are reported operating volumes, not measurements of how much labour the systems save.[8]
Each deployment needs people who understand both the software and the organisation. Anthropic’s Claude Frontier Academy, announced on October 2, has a US$100 million commitment and a target of training 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027. Participants begin with practical instruction and assessment, then lead a real project during a 12-week residency. The target is prospective; the first final credentials are expected in early 2027.[9]
Anthropic’s opportunity grows when customers build continuing work around Claude: the software they sell, the tools employees use and the processes that keep running between conversations.[2][9]
Sources & further reading
- Leadership at Anthropic Anthropic · Accessed 12 Oct 2026
- Claude enterprise solutions Anthropic · Accessed 12 Oct 2026
- Claude pricing Anthropic · Accessed 12 Oct 2026
- Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude Anthropic · 16 Sep 2026 · Accessed 12 Oct 2026
- Anthropic and Amazon expand collaboration for up to 5 gigawatts of new compute Anthropic · 20 Apr 2026 · Accessed 12 Oct 2026
- Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute Anthropic · 6 Apr 2026 · Accessed 12 Oct 2026
- Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships Anthropic · 18 Nov 2025 · Accessed 12 Oct 2026
- Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience Anthropic · 1 Oct 2026 · Accessed 12 Oct 2026
- Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap Anthropic · 2 Oct 2026 · Accessed 12 Oct 2026