Overview
Anthropic has detailed plan changes for business customers that combine its chat assistant and coding agent under a single subscription and expand administrative oversight. In an announcement dated Aug 20, 2025, the company outlined premium seats that include Claude Code, new spend and policy controls, and a Compliance API for programmatic access to usage and content data. The post is available at https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-team-and-enterprise.
Premium seats with Claude Code
Team and Enterprise administrators can assign standard or premium seats based on role or need. Premium seats bundle access to both Claude and Claude Code so developers can move from architectural exploration to implementation without leaving Anthropic’s tools. The announcement describes a common workflow: research or evaluate approaches in Claude conversations, then switch to Claude Code—used in the terminal—to implement production-ready code.
Anthropic’s post includes customer testimonials. Behavox describes the bundle as its “go-to pair programmer,” and Altana reports a “2–10x” increase in development velocity, attributed to Peter Swartz, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer. These are customer-reported outcomes; no independent benchmarks were provided.
Pricing and usage controls
Seats are described as including enough usage for a typical workday. For additional demand, admins can enable extra usage for individual users at standard API rates. Per-user maximum spend for extra usage can be enforced to keep billing predictable. The company also points to centralized billing and management across these plans. No specific pricing was disclosed.
Admin visibility and policy management
Anthropic is adding controls intended to give organizations more operational oversight:
- Self-serve seat management to purchase seats, allocate them, and provision users in an admin panel.
- Granular spend controls at both organization and user levels.
- Usage analytics within Claude that surface lines of code accepted, suggestion accept rate, and broader usage patterns for Claude Code activity.
- Managed policy settings to enforce internal rules across Claude Code users, including tool permissions, file access restrictions, and MCP server configurations.
Compliance API
The new Compliance API provides real-time programmatic access to Claude usage data and customer content. Anthropic positions this as a replacement for manual exports and periodic audits, enabling continuous monitoring and automated policy enforcement. Administrators can integrate data into existing compliance dashboards, set up automatic issue flagging, and manage data retention via selective deletion. No implementation details beyond these capabilities were provided.
Availability
According to the announcement, Team and Enterprise admins can upgrade to premium seats with Claude Code as of Aug 20, 2025. Both plans include granular spend caps, self-serve seat management, and Claude Code usage analytics. Further information and sales inquiries are directed to https://www.anthropic.com/contact-sales.
TL;DR
- Premium seats bundle Claude and Claude Code under one subscription for Team and Enterprise plans
- Extra usage can be enabled per user at standard API rates with per-user spend caps
- Admin features include self-serve seat management, granular spend controls, usage analytics, and managed policy settings (tool permissions, file access restrictions, MCP server configurations)
- Compliance API offers real-time programmatic access to usage and content data for monitoring, auditing, and retention workflows
- Available as of Aug 20, 2025; no pricing details disclosed
