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Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Code alongside new administrative controls designed specifically for business plans. These updates expand the capabilities and management options available to organizations using Claude. The announcement highlights Anthropic's ongoing development of enterprise-focused features.
Enterprise and Team customers can now upgrade to premium seats that include more usage and Claude Code—bringing our app and powerful coding agent together under one subscription. Users can move seamlessly between ideation and implementation, while admins get the visibility and controls they need to scale Claude across their organization.
We are also introducing a new Compliance API, giving organizations programmatic access to usage data and customer content for better observability, auditing, and governance.
Admins have full flexibility to assign standard or premium seats according to individual user requirements and organizational roles. Premium seats give users access to both Claude and Claude Code, enabling them to partner with Claude throughout the entire development lifecycle.
For example, developers can research unfamiliar frameworks through interactive chats with Claude, then implement production-ready code using Claude Code in their terminal. They can explore architectural approaches and evaluate trade-offs in Claude conversations, then switch to Claude Code to build their chosen architecture.
Team and Enterprise plan admins can now upgrade to premium seats with Claude Code—and take advantage of flexible pricing with extra usage options. Both Team and Enterprise plans include granular spend caps, self-serve seat management, and Claude Code usage analytics.
Early customers like Behavox, a compliance and security company, have seen immediate results. “Since bundling Claude for Enterprise with Claude Code, we’ve rolled it out to hundreds of developers, and it has quickly become our go-to pair programmer,” shares Artem Pikulin, Senior Manager of Machine Learning Operations. “Its coding assistance consistently outperforms other agents, delivering superior results and value every day.”
Altana, the AI-powered Product Network connecting the global supply chain, has experienced similar transformational results. “Claude Code and Claude have accelerated Altana's development velocity by 2-10x, transforming how we build sophisticated AI/ML systems that facilitate multi-party collaboration on large-scale knowledge graphs of global supply chains,” says Peter Swartz, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer. “We're taking on significantly more ambitious projects as a result.”
Claude seats include enough usage for a typical workday, but for times when your teams need access to more intelligence and additional conversations with Claude–admins can enable extra usage for individual users at standard API rates. Admins have control over the maximum amount a user can spend with extra usage to ensure that users get flexibility and admins get predictable billing.
This development highlights how AI providers are increasingly focusing on enterprise administration and developer tooling to better serve business customers.