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    Claude

    Claude is a general-purpose AI assistant from Anthropic, PBC, a US company; consumers and business customers in the EEA contract with Anthropic Ireland, Limited. It offers web search and Projects on every plan and, on paid plans, agentic tasks (Cowork) and add-ins for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but Anthropic's legal pages name no built-in Finnish or EU legal database. Under its Consumer Terms for the EEA, users of the personal plans agree not to use them for business purposes, so for law firms and legal teams this profile concentrates on the business plans, Team and Enterprise, which come with a data processing agreement.1,2,13,17,18,20,22–24,29–31,39

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    Who is Claude for?

    Based on public documentation and published benchmarks: under Anthropic's Consumer Terms for the EEA, users of the personal plans agree not to use them for business purposes, while Team and Enterprise come with a data processing agreement (DPA) and no training on chats by default, but their data is stored in the US and no EU-only processing option is documented. Anthropic lists ISO 27001 and SOC 2 for Team and Enterprise, but SCIM and audit logs are Enterprise-only, custom retention periods are documented for Enterprise, and Enterprise needs at least 20 seats on annual billing. Anthropic's legal pages name no built-in Finnish or EU legal source, the CoCounsel Legal connector they name covers US law only, and Finnish is not an interface language.13,14,17–19,24,26,29,31–33,35,36,39,40,42,43

    Best for

    • Law firms and legal teams on a Team or Enterprise plan that want one general assistant for drafting and redlining in Word with tracked changes, due diligence over data-room documents and contract review against a playbook.17,20,24,29
    • Teams that work mainly from their own documents, keeping files and instructions in shared Projects and connecting systems such as iManage, NetDocuments or Box, or their own tools through MCP.13,16,22
    • Small firms that want to set up a plan online rather than through sales: Team can be set up from the pricing page from 2 seats, with single sign-on, a data processing agreement and no training on chats by default.24,29,31,35,36,39,41

    Not for

    • Lawyers who would put client work on a personal Free, Pro or Max account: under the Consumer Terms for the EEA, users agree not to use the services for business purposes, the Privacy Policy mentions no data processing agreement, and chats are used for training while the Model Improvement setting is on.24,29,31,35,36,39
    • Firms that need client data stored or processed only in the EU: Team and Enterprise data is stored in the US, requests may be routed outside Europe, and no EU-only option is documented.27,31–33
    • Lawyers looking for a Finnish legal research tool: Anthropic's legal pages name no built-in Finnish or EU legal database, its legal launch post does not mention Finland, and Finnish is not an interface language.13,14,17,18
    • Small firms that need SCIM provisioning, audit logs or their own retention period: SCIM and audit logs are Enterprise-only, custom retention is documented for Enterprise, and Enterprise requires at least 20 seats billed annually plus usage at API rates; Team has single sign-on.24,26,29,41–43

    What is Claude?

    Claude is a general-purpose AI assistant, not a legal database. It runs on Anthropic’s own Claude models as web, desktop and mobile apps and, on paid plans, as add-ins for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, with Outlook in public beta.12,15,20

    In the EEA, the Consumer Terms for the personal plans are an agreement with Anthropic Ireland, Limited, under which users agree not to use the services for commercial or business purposes.24,29 Business customers in the EEA contract with the same company under the Commercial Terms, which include the Data Processing Addendum.1,31,39 This profile therefore compares the business plans (Team and Enterprise) for law firms; anyone considering a personal plan (Free, Pro or Max) for client work should read the Consumer Terms first.

    What can Claude do?

    Anthropic’s legal page describes contract review against a playbook, drafting and redlining in Word with tracked changes, due diligence over data-room documents and compliance gap analysis.17 Its open-source Claude for Legal plugins treat every output as a draft for a lawyer’s review, and their examples include US rules, GDPR impact assessments and the EU AI Act, but not Finland.18 Projects keep documents and instructions together. On paid plans, Research mode runs multi-step searches, and agentic tasks (Cowork) work across the files and tools the user chooses, reading, editing and creating files; the Cowork page says it is rolling out to Pro and Max first.21–23 Anthropic’s legal launch post names connectors for systems such as iManage, NetDocuments, Box and Relativity, and custom connectors to remote MCP servers can be added on every plan (only one on Free, and only by owners on Team).13,16

    Finnish is not among the interface languages, although Claude replies in the language the user writes in, and Anthropic’s published multilingual benchmarks, which cover Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5, do not include Finnish.14,25 Its Finnish quality score below is an estimate from a general language benchmark, EuroEval, which does not test legal writing.

    What Claude offers
    Fact Details
    Products and editions Claude apps (web, desktop and mobile); Claude Code; Claude Cowork; Claude in Chrome; Claude for Microsoft 365; Claude for Google Workspace; Claude Tag for Slack (beta, Team and Enterprise); Claude Design; Claude Science; Claude Security; and the Claude Platform (API). Official claude.com/product/overview Last verified
    Integrations Anthropic's legal launch post names connectors for document management (iManage, NetDocuments), deal rooms (Box, Datasite), contracts (Definely, Docusign, Ironclad), e-discovery (Consilio, Everlaw, Relativity), legal AI assistants (Harvey, Solve Intelligence) and legal research, including Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal. Launch post dated 12 May 2026. Official claude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industry Last verified
    Interface languages English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish and Spanish (Spain). Finnish is not among them; Claude converses in the language the user writes in. Help article updated 6 August 2026. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/10769299 Last verified
    AI models Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic's own models, as listed in its models overview. Legacy models such as Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 are still available. Official platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models… Last verified
    API Yes. The Claude API on Anthropic's developer platform, with the same models offered through Claude Platform on AWS, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry. Pricing is per token, for example Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. Official platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models… Last verified
    MCP and connectors Yes. Custom connectors to remote MCP servers are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise (Free is limited to one); on Team plans only owners can add them. Anthropic describes MCP as an open standard it created. Servers on a private network must allowlist Anthropic's IP addresses. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/11175166-get-sta… Last verified
    Documented legal workflows Contract review against a playbook, legal research with citations through the Thomson Reuters connector, drafting and redlining in Word with tracked changes, due diligence over data-room documents, outside-counsel billing and matter review, and compliance gap analysis. The page is undated. For due diligence, it describes connecting Claude to a Box or Intralinks data room. Official claude.com/solutions/legal Last verified
    Claude for Legal plugins Open-source plugins for practice areas (Commercial, Corporate, Employment, Privacy, Product, Regulatory, AI Governance, IP and Litigation Legal) plus Legal Clinic, Law Student and Legal Builder Hub. They install in Claude Cowork or Claude Code, start with a setup interview that writes a practice profile, and treat every output as a draft for attorney review. Apache 2.0 licence. The README's examples include US rules, GDPR impact assessments and the EU AI Act; it does not mention Finland. Official github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal Last verified
    Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal connector Brings Westlaw Deep Research into Claude for CoCounsel Legal subscribers. It covers US federal and state law, up to three US jurisdictions per run; foreign or non-US law is out of scope. Plugin README in Anthropic's claude-for-legal repository. Official github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/mai… Last verified
    Claude for Microsoft 365 add-ins Applies to: Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x, Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Claude for Word, Excel and PowerPoint are generally available, and Claude for Outlook is in public beta, for Mac and Windows users on all paid plans. Announced 7 May 2026. Official claude.com/blog/collaborate-with-claude-across-… Last verified
    Research mode Applies to: Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x, Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Multi-step research that runs searches building on each other; on web and desktop it can also use enabled connectors such as Google Workspace. Web search must be turned on. Paid plans only. On mobile, Research searches only the web and skips connectors. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/11088861-use-res… Last verified
    Projects (knowledge bases) Workspaces with their own chat history, knowledge base and instructions. Free accounts can create up to five; on paid plans, retrieval (RAG) can expand project knowledge capacity up to ten times, and projects can be shared in an organisation with view or edit rights. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/9517075-what-are… Last verified
    Agentic tasks (Cowork) Applies to: Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x, Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Claude works toward a goal across files and tools the user chooses: it reads, edits and creates files (deletions need approval), runs scheduled tasks unattended and supports plugins that bundle skills, connectors and sub-agents. Local folder access needs the desktop app. Cowork uses up limits faster than chat. The page says Cowork is now part of Claude itself, rolling out to Pro and Max first. Official claude.com/product/cowork Last verified
    File creation, Artifacts and memory Creating and editing files with code execution, Artifacts and memory are listed on every plan, Free included. Official claude.com/pricing Last verified
    Enterprise search Applies to: Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Enterprise search across the organisation. Official claude.com/pricing Last verified
    Published multilingual benchmarks Anthropic's multilingual benchmark table covers Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 in 14 languages besides English; Finnish is not among them. Anthropic says Claude is capable in many languages beyond those benchmarked. Official platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/m… Last verified
    Custom data retention Applies to: Enterprise Enterprise data is kept indefinitely by default; admins can set a custom retention period of at least 30 days. It does not apply to Claude Design, Claude Tag, Claude Managed Agents or features that run Claude Code in the cloud. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/10440198-custom-… Last verified
    US-only inference Applies to: Enterprise Usage-based Enterprise plans can restrict inference to the US, with usage billed at 1.1 times standard API rates on recent models. The setting does not appear on Team or legacy seat-based Enterprise plans. Help article updated 15 June 2026. Connectors and third-party services process data on their own infrastructure, which may be outside the US. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/15422948-enable-… Last verified
    Discounts for legal clinics and public defenders Qualifying legal clinics and public defenders get discounted Claude pricing through the Claude for Nonprofits programme. The page is undated and states no discount amount or eligibility rules. Official claude.com/solutions/legal Last verified

    Does Claude cover Finnish and EU law?

    Not from a built-in source that Anthropic names. Its legal pages and plugin repository name no source of Finnish legislation, case law or preparatory works.13,17,18 For EU law, the legal launch post lists a third-party connector, Legal Data Hunter, described as covering EU consolidated law; no source of CJEU or General Court case law is named.13,17,18

    Of the other third-party connectors Anthropic names, Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal is for CoCounsel Legal subscribers and covers US federal and state law only, and the launch post does not mention Finland.13,19 We have not assessed these connectors or checked every listing in Anthropic’s connector directory.

    Web search with citations is available, Free plan included; on Team and Enterprise, an owner must first turn it on.30 For a Finnish question, any cited source would therefore come from web search, uploaded documents or a third-party connector, and each answer would need checking against the official text.

    Legal sources in Claude
    Fact Details
    Finnish legislation Not publicly disclosed Anthropic's legal page, legal launch post and plugin repository name no Finnish legal source or database. Pages checked: claude.com/solutions/legalclaude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industrygithub.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal Last verified
    Finnish case law Not publicly disclosed No source of Finnish court decisions, such as KKO or KHO rulings, is named. Pages checked: claude.com/solutions/legalclaude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industrygithub.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal Last verified
    Finnish preparatory works Not publicly disclosed No source of Finnish government proposals or other preparatory works is named. Pages checked: claude.com/solutions/legalclaude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industrygithub.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal Last verified
    Links between Finnish sources Not publicly disclosed No Finnish legal source is documented as part of the tool, so no links between such sources are either. Pages checked: claude.com/solutions/legalclaude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industrygithub.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal Last verified
    EU legislation The legal launch post names no built-in EU legislation source. It lists a third-party connector, Legal Data Hunter, described as covering 160+ jurisdictions including EU consolidated law. The coverage claim belongs to the third-party connector; we have not assessed it. Official claude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industry Last verified
    EU case law Not publicly disclosed No built-in source of CJEU or General Court case law is named. The Legal Data Hunter connector's case-law claim names neither the CJEU nor any Finnish court. Pages checked: claude.com/solutions/legalclaude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industrygithub.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal Last verified
    Legal content partners No built-in legal publisher content is named. Anthropic's legal launch post names third-party connectors: Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal (grounded in Westlaw primary law and Practical Law guidance); the research and case-law connectors Legal Data Hunter, Midpage and Trellis; and public-service connectors including Descrybe and Free Law Project (CourtListener). It does not mention Finland or the Nordics. Launch post dated 12 May 2026. Official claude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industry Last verified
    Web search Yes, with citations in every response; Free accounts can use it within usage limits. On Team and Enterprise, an owner must first turn it on for the organisation. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/10684626-enable-… Last verified

    How does Claude handle your data?

    On the personal plans, Anthropic Ireland, Limited is the data controller for users in the EEA, and the Privacy Policy mentions no data processing agreement (DPA). Chats are used for training while the Model Improvement setting is on, and de-identified chats may then be kept for up to five years; even with the setting off, flagged chats and feedback may be used.31,35–39

    On the business plans, Anthropic is the processor under a DPA that includes the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, and chats are not used for training by default, except through the Development Partner Program, feedback or other explicit opt-ins. The DPA makes no commitment on where data is stored or processed.31,35,36,39 Team and Enterprise data is stored in the US, and requests may by default be routed to the US, Europe, Asia and Australia; usage-based Enterprise plans can restrict inference to the US, but no EU-only option is documented.27,31–33 The subprocessor list names Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure for cloud infrastructure, each with the location given as worldwide.34 For a Finnish firm, the DPA’s transfer clauses and the subprocessor list are the documents to review.

    Team has single sign-on but not SCIM or audit logs; those come with Enterprise, as do customer-managed encryption keys for eligible organisations. Enterprise audit logs cover 180 days, and conversation events show identifiers only, not chat content.41–44 Enterprise data is kept indefinitely unless admins set a retention period of at least 30 days, and that setting does not cover some features, such as Claude Design and Claude Tag.26 Anthropic lists ISO 27001, ISO/IEC 42001 and SOC 2 for Team and Enterprise.40
    How Claude handles data
    Fact Details
    Where data is stored Applies to: Free, Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x Personal data is transferred to Anthropic's servers in the US or to other countries outside the EEA, relying on adequacy decisions and Standard Contractual Clauses. The policy documents no EU storage option. Privacy Policy effective 10 September 2026. Official anthropic.com/legal/privacy Last verified
    Where data is stored Applies to: Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Data is stored in the US. The article documents no EU storage option. Privacy Center article updated 15 June 2026, covering commercial products such as Claude Enterprise and the API. Official privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996890-where-ar… Last verified
    Where data is processed Applies to: Free, Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x Not tied to one region: Anthropic may process data in countries where it or its partners operate. The article documents no EU-only or US-only option. Privacy Center article updated 16 March 2026. Official privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10458704-how-doe… Last verified
    Where data is processed Applies to: Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise By default, traffic may be routed to selected countries in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, and data may be processed where Anthropic or its affiliates operate for safety review, product support or incident response. The article documents no EU-only option. Privacy Center article updated 15 June 2026, covering commercial products such as Claude Enterprise and the API. Official privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996890-where-ar… Last verified
    Hosting Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are listed as cloud infrastructure subprocessors for all products, each with the location 'Worldwide'. Per Anthropic's subprocessor list, which does not say which provider holds which data. Official trust.anthropic.com/subprocessors Last verified
    Training on your data Applies to: Free, Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x Chats and coding sessions are used for training when the Model Improvement setting is on. Even with it off, conversations flagged for safety review and thumbs up or down feedback may be used. Incognito chats are never used. Privacy Center article updated 16 March 2026. Raw content from connectors, such as Google Drive or MCP servers, is excluded. Official privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023580-is-my-d… Last verified
    Training on your data Applies to: Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Chats and coding sessions are not used for training by default. The exceptions are the Development Partner Program, explicit feedback such as thumbs up or down, and other explicit opt-ins. Privacy Center article updated 16 March 2026; it covers Claude for Work (Team and Enterprise) and the API. Official privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996885-how-do-y… Last verified
    Data retention Applies to: Free, Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x Kept as long as reasonably necessary, with no fixed period; deleted chats are removed from back-end storage within 30 days. With Model Improvement on, de-identified chats may be kept up to 5 years in training pipelines. Flagged content is kept up to 2 years (safety scores up to 7 years) and feedback 5 years. Privacy Center article updated 1 July 2026. Official privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023548-how-lon… Last verified
    Data retention Applies to: Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Chats and coding sessions are kept in the product; deleted conversations are removed from back-end storage within 30 days. Flagged inputs and outputs may be kept up to 2 years (safety scores up to 7 years) and feedback 5 years. API inputs and outputs are deleted within 30 days unless agreed otherwise. Privacy Center article updated 1 July 2026; it covers Claude for Work and the API, and names a zero data retention agreement as one exception. Official privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996866-how-long… Last verified
    Data processing agreement Applies to: Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Yes. The Data Processing Addendum (effective 24 February 2025) forms part of the Commercial Terms and includes the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Modules 2 and 3) with UK and Swiss addenda. Anthropic is the customer's processor. No commitment on where data is stored or processed. New subprocessors: reasonable notice, then 15 days to object, or consent is deemed. Official anthropic.com/legal/data-processing-addendum Last verified
    Data processing agreement Applies to: Free, Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x Anthropic Ireland, Limited is the data controller for users in the EEA, UK and Switzerland. The Privacy Policy does not mention a data processing agreement. Privacy Policy effective 10 September 2026. It gives a Data Protection Officer contact, dpo@anthropic.com. Official anthropic.com/legal/privacy Last verified
    Certifications Applies to: Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise ISO 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, SOC 2 Type I and SOC 2 Type II Covers commercial products such as Claude for Work and the API (help article updated 16 March 2026). A HIPAA-ready configuration with a BAA is also listed. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/10015870-what-ce… Last verified
    Single sign-on (SAML) Applies to: Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Yes: SAML or OpenID Connect, with set-up guides for Okta, Entra ID, Google, OneLogin, JumpCloud and Duo. Requires domain verification; just-in-time (JIT) provisioning can be turned on. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/13132885-set-up-… Last verified
    User provisioning (SCIM) Applies to: Enterprise Yes, on Enterprise. SCIM is not available on Team plans. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/13133195-set-up-… Last verified
    Audit logs Applies to: Enterprise Yes, on Enterprise only. Owners can export 180 days of logs of sign-ins, project and member changes, SSO and domain changes, file uploads and conversation events (identifiers only, no chat content); the events are also available through the Compliance API. Help article updated 15 June 2026. With customer-managed keys, the export button is unavailable and the Compliance API is used instead. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/9970975-access-a… Last verified
    Subprocessors The Anthropic Trust Center lists 22 subprocessors, including Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure for cloud infrastructure and Cloudflare for traffic routing. User support providers are listed in the US, South Africa and Canada. Billing (Stripe) and web search (Brave Search, TurboPuffer, Parallel) subprocessors are listed in the US. The page needs JavaScript to display the list. Official trust.anthropic.com/subprocessors Last verified
    Encryption Applies to: Enterprise Customer-managed encryption keys are available to eligible Enterprise organisations, using AWS KMS, Google Cloud KMS or Azure Key Vault, and cover data such as chats, projects and files. Help article updated 15 June 2026. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/15505325-what-ar… Last verified

    How much does Claude cost?

    The Free plan costs nothing, within usage limits, and the pricing page lists trials only under sales-assisted Enterprise. Team, for 2 to 150 seats, can be set up from the pricing page, and Enterprise is billed annually for at least 20 seats, plus usage at API rates.24,29

    SCIM, audit logs and custom retention periods are documented for Enterprise, so a small firm that needs them would be paying for at least 20 seats.24,26,29,42,43 The CoCounsel Legal connector is for CoCounsel Legal subscribers19, so a firm would also need that subscription, whose price this profile does not cover. Finland and the other EU member states are listed as supported regions.28

    Plans and prices for Claude
    Plan Price
    Free For individuals
    • Free Excludes Claude Code, Claude Science, Research, Claude in Chrome, Claude for Microsoft 365 and single sign-on. Official claude.com/pricing Last verified
    Pro For individuals
    • US$20 per user per month, billed monthly Prices shown exclude applicable tax. Official claude.com/pricing Last verified
    • US$17 per user per month, billed annually $200 billed up front for the year. Official claude.com/pricing Last verified
    Max 5x For individuals
    • US$100 per user per month, billed monthly For individual consumers. Five times Pro usage; monthly billing only. Web price; mobile pricing may vary. Includes monthly Claude API credits. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/11049741-what-is… Last verified
    Max 20x For individuals
    • US$200 per user per month, billed monthly For individual consumers. Twenty times Pro usage; monthly billing only. Web price; mobile pricing may vary. Includes monthly Claude API credits. Official support.claude.com/en/articles/11049741-what-is… Last verified
    Team (Standard seat) For teams
    Team (Premium seat) For teams
    Enterprise For organisations
    • US$20 per user per month, billed annually, minimum 20 users Plus usage at API rates, which scales with model and task. Annual subscriptions only. Trials, invoicing and AWS Marketplace purchase are for sales-assisted Enterprise. Official claude.com/pricing Last verified
    Education For organisations
    How to get Claude
    Fact Details
    Availability Available. Finland and all EU member states are listed as supported regions for Anthropic's products, including its apps such as Claude.ai and its API. The page is marked effective 12 November 2026, later than our check, and links no earlier version. Official anthropic.com/supported-countries Last verified
    Free plan or trial A Free plan at $0, with usage limits. The pricing page lists trials only under sales-assisted Enterprise. Trial length and terms are not stated. Official claude.com/pricing Last verified
    How to buy Applies to: Free, Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x For consumers resident in the EEA or Switzerland, the Consumer Terms are an agreement with Anthropic Ireland, Limited and cover Claude.ai and Claude Pro. Under them, users agree not to use the services for commercial or business purposes. Consumer Terms effective 8 October 2025. Official anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms Last verified
    How to buy Applies to: Team (Standard seat), Team (Premium seat) and Enterprise Team (2 to 150 seats) and self-serve Enterprise have a 'Create plan' option on the pricing page; sales-assisted Enterprise goes through sales. Enterprise is billed annually, minimum 20 seats, with usage at API rates on top of the seat price. Trials, invoicing on net terms and AWS Marketplace purchase are listed for sales-assisted Enterprise only. Official claude.com/pricing Last verified

    Who makes Claude?

    Claude is made by Anthropic, PBC, a public benefit corporation founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, with a Long-Term Benefit Trust in its governance.1–3 Its Series H round, announced in May 2026, raised US$65 billion, and in June 2026 it said it had confidentially submitted a draft registration statement to the US SEC for a proposed initial public offering.4,10
    Who makes Claude
    Fact Details
    Operator Anthropic, PBC. Business customers resident in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK contract with Anthropic Ireland, Limited. Per the Commercial Terms, effective 17 June 2025. Official anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms Last verified
    Headquarters San Francisco, United States Official anthropic.com/transparency/voluntary-commitments Last verified
    Founded 2021 The Series B announcement of 29 April 2022 dates Anthropic's founding to the beginning of 2021. Official anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-b-to… Last verified
    Ownership A public benefit corporation (Anthropic, PBC); a Long-Term Benefit Trust forms part of its governance. Official anthropic.com/transparency/voluntary-commitments Last verified
    Funding Series H: US$65 billion at a US$965 billion post-money valuation, led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. Announced 28 May 2026. Co-led by Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, GIC, ICONIQ and XN. Official anthropic.com/news/series-h Last verified
    Acquisition of Bun Acquired Bun, the open-source JavaScript runtime, to accelerate Claude Code. Announced 3 December 2025. Official anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-cl… Last verified
    Acquisition of Vercept Acquired Vercept, a team working on how AI can see and act in everyday software, to advance Claude's computer use. Announced 25 February 2026. Official anthropic.com/news/acquires-vercept Last verified
    New AI services company Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs announced a new AI services company to help mid-sized companies bring Claude into their operations. Announced 4 May 2026. The announcement does not state the company's legal structure. Official anthropic.com/news/enterprise-ai-services-compa… Last verified
    Acquisition of Stainless Acquired Stainless, which builds SDK and MCP server tooling and has generated every official Anthropic SDK. Announced 18 May 2026. Official anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless Last verified
    Sixth European office Announced a Milan office, its sixth in Europe alongside London, Dublin, Paris, Zurich and Munich. Announced 27 May 2026. Official anthropic.com/news/milan-office-opening Last verified
    Draft IPO registration Confidentially submitted a draft Form S-1 registration statement to the US SEC for a proposed initial public offering. The number of shares and the price have not been set. Notice dated 1 June 2026; it states that it is not an offer to sell securities. Official anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec Last verified
    Anthropic Public Benefit Fund Anthropic committed 5% of its shares, subject to stockholder approval, to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned LLC. The board may add 2% more for every 50% rise in company value above a set baseline. Announced 18 October 2026. Official anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund Last verified

    Who uses Claude?

    Freshfields says it has signed a multi-year agreement with Anthropic and given 5,700 employees Claude access through its own AI platform.45 Anthropic’s legal page names Legora among companies building legal products with Claude.17 These are statements by Freshfields and Anthropic, not independent assessments.

    Named users of Claude
    Fact Details
    Freshfields Global law firm Freshfields signed a multi-year agreement with Anthropic, giving 5,700 employees Claude access through its own AI platform, and plans firmwide deployment across its 33 offices. Freshfields' own announcement of 23 April 2026. Official freshfields.com/en/our-thinking/news/news-searc… Last verified
    Legora (legal-tech builder) Named on Anthropic's legal solutions page, with a quote from its CTO, in the section on building legal products with Claude. The section is about embedding Claude in legal products through the API; it also names Harvey and Thomson Reuters. According to the vendor claude.com/solutions/legal Last verified

    How does Claude score on our rubric?

    We score every tool on the same 8 criteria, each from 0 to 10. Three criteria rest on published benchmarks, some of them estimates; the others rest on public documentation and published prices.

    Overall score: 6.1/10, the weighted average of the criteria that apply to Claude. It includes an estimate, so it may change when a benchmark tests the tool itself.

    The scores apply to Enterprise, the best plan we found for a business buyer in the EU.

    How we score

    Scores for Claude by criterion
    Criterion Weight Score
    Legal task quality 15% 7/10 Benchmark: Vals Legal Index
    Grounding and verifiability 10% 6/10 Benchmark: Legal Research Bench
    Finnish quality 10% 7/10 estimate Benchmark: EuroEval Finnish leaderboard
    Finnish legal sources 15% 0/10
    EU legal sources 10% 0/10
    Security and data handling 15% 8/10
    Workflow fit 10% 10/10
    Estimated price 15% 10/10 estimate

    Legal task quality: 7/10

    From published benchmarks · Assessed 25 October 2026

    Scored from Claude Opus 5.5 on legal research and drafting tasks under US law. The index does not list Claude Fable 5.1, the plan's most capable model by list price, so we use the next one it lists. The benchmark does not test Finnish or EU law.15

    The benchmark results behind the Legal task quality score
    Benchmark Result
    Vals Legal Index Claude Opus 5.5 Vals AI · page dated 24 October 2026 · read 25 October 2026 72.33%

    Grounding and verifiability: 6/10

    From published benchmarks · Assessed 25 October 2026

    Scored from how often Claude Fable 5.1's research answers meet every point of an expert grading rubric, sources included: it shares the top result on the leaderboard, but almost half of its answers still miss a point.15

    The benchmark results behind the Grounding and verifiability score
    Benchmark Result
    Legal Research Bench Claude Fable 5.1 Vals AI · page dated 24 October 2026 · read 25 October 2026 55.29%

    Finnish quality: 7/10

    Estimate from published benchmarks · Assessed 27 October 2026

    Estimated from Claude Sonnet 4.6's general Finnish results. The benchmark does not test legal terminology, and the interface is not in Finnish.14,15

    Assumption: The EuroEval leaderboard lists none of the models the plan offers, so we use the newest Claude model it lists, Claude Sonnet 4.6. Newer models usually do better, so the estimate is likely low.

    The benchmark results behind the Finnish quality score
    Benchmark Result
    EuroEval Finnish leaderboard claude-sonnet-4-6 (zero-shot, val) EuroEval · page dated 25 October 2026 · read 25 October 2026 rank score 1.98

    Finnish legal sources: 0/10

    From public documentation · Assessed 27 October 2026

    Anthropic names no built-in Finnish or EU legal source. Claude can search the web, and third-party connectors such as Legal Data Hunter claim EU coverage, but under our rubric neither counts as part of the tool.13,17,18,30

    How the Finnish legal sources score adds up
    Item Points
    Finnish legislation Not documented, or only through web search or a separately sold connector. Not publicly disclosed 0 of 4
    Finnish case law Not documented, or only through web search or a separately sold connector. Not publicly disclosed 0 of 3
    Finnish preparatory works Not documented, or only through web search or a separately sold connector. Not publicly disclosed 0 of 3

    EU legal sources: 0/10

    From public documentation · Assessed 27 October 2026

    Anthropic names no built-in Finnish or EU legal source. Claude can search the web, and third-party connectors such as Legal Data Hunter claim EU coverage, but under our rubric neither counts as part of the tool.13,17,18,30

    How the EU legal sources score adds up
    Item Points
    EU legislation Not documented, or only through web search or a separately sold connector. 0 of 5
    EU case law Not documented, or only through web search or a separately sold connector. Not publicly disclosed 0 of 5

    Security and data handling: 8/10

    From public documentation · Assessed 27 October 2026

    Enterprise data is stored in the US, and Anthropic documents no EU-only storage or processing option, so residency scores 0. Chats are not used for training by default, a Data Processing Addendum is part of the Commercial Terms, admins can set a custom retention period, and Anthropic lists ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II and SAML or OpenID Connect single sign-on.26,31–33,35–41

    How the Security and data handling score adds up
    Item Points
    EU/EEA storage and processing No EU/EEA storage or processing is documented. 0 of 2
    No training on customer content Customer content is not used to train models, without the customer having to opt out. 2 of 2
    Data processing agreement A data processing agreement, with the vendor as processor, is available for the plan. 1 of 1
    Retention The customer sets how long content is kept and can delete it, or the vendor keeps no customer content beyond the request. 2 of 2
    Security certifications Both an ISO/IEC 27001 certification and a SOC 2 Type II report cover the service. 2 of 2
    Single sign-on Single sign-on through SAML or OpenID Connect is available on the plan. 1 of 1

    Workflow fit: 10/10

    From public documentation · Assessed 23 October 2026

    Claude for Word is generally available and Claude for Outlook is in public beta, connectors reach iManage and NetDocuments, and Cowork carries out multi-step tasks with plugins. Enterprise adds SCIM and exportable audit logs, and there is an API and custom MCP connectors.13,15,16,18,20,23,42,43

    How the Workflow fit score adds up
    Item Points
    Microsoft Word Works inside Word documents through an add-in or built-in integration. 2 of 2
    Email Works inside Outlook or connects to the team's email. 1 of 1
    Document management Connects to a legal document management system such as iManage or NetDocuments. 2 of 2
    Agents and workflows Carries out multi-step tasks as an agent, or lets the team build its own reusable workflows. 2 of 2
    User provisioning Provisions users from the organisation's identity provider, through SCIM or directory sync. 1 of 1
    Audit logs Keeps audit logs that administrators can review or export. 1 of 1
    API or MCP Offers an API or MCP connections for linking the tool with the organisation's own systems. 1 of 1

    Estimated price: 10/10

    From an estimated price · Assessed 25 October 2026

    Enterprise has a published seat price of US$20 per user per month, billed annually for at least 20 seats, plus usage at API rates.24

    Price we score: US$20 per user per month, excluding VAT, about €18 at the European Central Bank reference rate of 23 October 2026.

    Assumption: We count the seat price only. Usage is billed on top at API rates and depends on the models and tasks a team runs, so the real price is higher than the one we score. Anthropic publishes no typical usage cost.

    What other tools do we cover?

    • General AI assistant

      ChatGPT

      OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for drafting, document work and research, not a legal database.

      Last verified:

    • Legal research

      Edilex AI

      An AI add-on to the Finnish legal information service Edilex that answers legal questions from Edilex sources.

      Last verified:

    • Legal AI platform

      Harvey

      A legal AI platform with agents, legal research, drafting and bulk document review, for law firms and in-house legal teams.

      Last verified:

    • Legal source connector

      Laki.ai

      A connector that brings Finnish legal sources into AI assistants, rather than an assistant of its own.

      Last verified:

    • Legal AI platform

      Legora

      A legal AI platform with an agent, legal research, drafting in Word and bulk document review, for law firms and in-house teams.

      Last verified:

    Where do these facts come from?

    Numbers in the text point to this list. Each fact in the tables links to its own source, with the date we last checked it.

    1. 1 https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms Official source
    2. 2 https://www.anthropic.com/transparency/voluntary-commitments Official source
    3. 3 https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-b-to-build-safe-reliable-ai Official source
    4. 4 https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h Official source
    5. 5 https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone Official source
    6. 6 https://www.anthropic.com/news/acquires-vercept Official source
    7. 7 https://www.anthropic.com/news/enterprise-ai-services-company Official source
    8. 8 https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless Official source
    9. 9 https://www.anthropic.com/news/milan-office-opening Official source
    10. 10 https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec Official source
    11. 11 https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund Official source
    12. 12 https://claude.com/product/overview Official source
    13. 13 https://claude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industry Official source
    14. 14 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10769299 Official source
    15. 15 https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview Official source
    16. 16 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11175166-get-started-with-custom-connectors-using-remote-mcp Official source
    17. 17 https://claude.com/solutions/legal Official source
    18. 18 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal Official source
    19. 19 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/external_plugins/cocounsel-legal Official source
    20. 20 https://claude.com/blog/collaborate-with-claude-across-excel-powerpoint-word-and-outlook Official source
    21. 21 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11088861-use-research-on-claude Official source
    22. 22 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9517075-what-are-projects Official source
    23. 23 https://claude.com/product/cowork Official source
    24. 24 https://claude.com/pricing Official source
    25. 25 https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/multilingual-support Official source
    26. 26 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10440198-custom-data-retention-controls-for-claude-enterprise Official source
    27. 27 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15422948-enable-us-only-inference-for-your-organization Official source
    28. 28 https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries Official source
    29. 29 https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms Official source
    30. 30 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10684626-enable-and-use-web-search Official source
    31. 31 https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy Official source
    32. 32 https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996890-where-are-your-servers-located-do-you-host-your-models-on-eu-servers Official source
    33. 33 https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10458704-how-does-anthropic-protect-the-personal-data-of-claude-users Official source
    34. 34 https://trust.anthropic.com/subprocessors Official source
    35. 35 https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023580-is-my-data-used-for-model-training Official source
    36. 36 https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996885-how-do-you-use-personal-data-in-model-training Official source
    37. 37 https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023548-how-long-do-you-store-my-data Official source
    38. 38 https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996866-how-long-do-you-store-my-organization-s-data Official source
    39. 39 https://www.anthropic.com/legal/data-processing-addendum Official source
    40. 40 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10015870-what-certifications-has-anthropic-obtained Official source
    41. 41 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13132885-set-up-single-sign-on-sso Official source
    42. 42 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13133195-set-up-jit-or-scim-provisioning Official source
    43. 43 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9970975-access-audit-logs Official source
    44. 44 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15505325-what-are-customer-managed-encryption-keys-cmek Official source
    45. 45 https://www.freshfields.com/en/our-thinking/news/news-search/2026/04/freshfields-and-anthropic-team-up-to-co-build-ai-legal-workflows-deploying-claude-across-the-firm-globally Official source
    46. 46 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11049741-what-is-the-max-plan Official source
    47. 47 https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9266767-what-is-the-team-plan Official source
    48. 48 https://claude.com/solutions/education Checked; does not say