Claude Team plan for scientists

Putting Claude in the hands of scientists

Scientists at academic and nonprofit research institutions around the world can now get Claude at no cost to start.

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Made for scientific research

A workbench built for science

Claude generates and tests hypotheses, writes code, and runs analyses on your data. It scales compute from your laptop to hundreds of GPUs on demand, and traces steps from data wrangling to publication.

Grounded in scientific research

Claude cites its sources, shows the math behind results, and pushes back when the evidence doesn't support the claim.

One plan that grows with you

Start free, bring your group into one shared workspace, and scale up as your projects demand it. Your research data stays yours.

Research

How Claude is accelerating protein design and analytical chemistry

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How scientists use Claude

Astrophysics

Fusion of astronomical datasets

Create a map of the full sky in ultraviolet by combining and calibrating observations from different space telescopes. Use statistical techniques to fill in regions with missing data.

Biology

Analyze biological data end to end

Analyze molecular datasets like scRNA, WGS, ATAC, MS-Spec, and more from raw feature counts to biologically resolved results. Claude scales your analysis and fits quantitative models on demand.

Chemistry

Plan a synthesis route for any target

Run retrosynthesis on a drawn structure or SMILES, review each route for protecting-group strategy, selectivity, and step order, and land on a path from in-stock materials.

Quantum computing

Optimize and verify quantum circuits

Claude rewrites fault tolerant quantum circuits and verifies changes, so work that used to take specialists months per circuit can run largely on its own.

Statistics

Test hypotheses computationally

Run numerical experiments, compare results against theoretical predictions, and generate publication-ready figures in a fraction of the time it used to take.

Materials science

Materials discovery and prediction

Work backward from target properties to candidate structures, validate them with first-principles simulations, and screen for what can be synthesized.

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Claude connects to your tools

Work across your literature databases, research platforms, and productivity tools in one place.

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Products and programs to support scientists

Claude Science

The Claude Science app is your workbench for rigorous scientific research. It runs analyses, searches databases, and traces steps from data wrangling to publication, so you can spend more time on science.

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AI for Science

Anthropic’s grant program for ambitious research funds months of sustained work through extra usage credits. We’ve backed hundreds of projects so far across institutions and scientific domains.

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Putting Claude in the hands of more scientists

10,000 scientists around the world can now get Claude at no cost to start. Verified principal investigators qualify for a Claude Team subscription plan and then add their research team to Standard seats for free, or Premium seats for $15 per month.

Promotional pricing for 12 months for verified research groups.
Limited availability; terms apply.

Standard

$0/month

regularly $20/month

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  • Access to Claude Science, Code, & Cowork
  • Connectors to scientific databases and skills
  • Shared projects and file creation
  • Central billing and administration
  • Single sign-on (SSO)
  • Minimum 1 seat

Premium

$15/month

regularly $100/month

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Everything in Standard, plus:
  • 5x more usage*
  • Higher limits for long-running analyses

Extra usage

Apply for credits

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When a project outgrows existing capacity, apply for extra usage credits through the AI for Science program.

*Extra usage limits apply. Prices shown don’t include applicable tax and may change at Anthropic’s discretion.

1–25 seats per group; contact us for larger groups. Annual billing available ($0 / $180 per seat).

Promotional pricing applies for 12 months from sign-up, and to charges after that date.

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Why scientists choose Claude

"After collaborating with Claude Code for the past 3 months, turning one idea after another into research projects, I am totally hooked. I cannot imagine research anymore without it! Claude's coding and reasoning capabilities are out of this world, and it's dramatically expanded my conception of what's possible."

David Shih, Professor of Physics, Rutgers University

“[Claude] was extraordinarily useful for my research -- both a larger, purely empirical project with a complicated codebase, and some more basic research projects and idea seeds where I needed to prototype something quickly. It definitely changed the game for me, and I re-subscribed!"

Hannah Lawrence, Computer Science Ph.D. student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Claude has changed the way that I do science, from the way that I explore the literature and brainstorm for a new hypothesis, to our ability to analyze large-scale datasets and integrate diverse information sources at a scale that would be difficult to achieve otherwise. It has accelerated my work, but has also allowed me to generate testable and verifiable ideas and to think about the science in fundamentally new ways. Claude passes the scientific “deletion test” - it has become an essential tool for our work.”

Iain Cheeseman, Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Associate Department Head

“Claude has become a useful tool for our medicinal chemistry work. It pulls structure-activity trends out of dense SAR tables and can read chemistry from images into SMILES and reaction steps. We've even built a med chem agent using Claude that reasons over structures, computed and predicted properties, and experimental data to flag liabilities and surface which series are worth advancing.”

Akhila Kosaraju, CEO, Phare Bio

“Claude has helped our lab identify promising research directions to hone in on by enabling rapid preliminary analysis and statistical power prediction for complex, highly specialized experimental designs.”

Silvia Domke, Assistant Professor, University of Zurich

“We have taken data harmonization projects and standards development efforts that would have taken a decade to complete and realized them in months. Claude has fundamentally changed how we interact with domain experts and the content we can deliver, such as for rare disease diagnostics and drug repurposing.”

Melissa Haendel, Director of Precision Health & Translational Informatics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Over the last six months, Claude has become a crucial collaborator for our lab, from designing computer processors, to programming languages, to operating systems. As a team of computer systems builders, we can engage in high-risk, engineering-heavy prototyping which would be difficult to justify in the past."

Jonathan Balkind, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

“I use Opus as an intellectual partner to find holes in my ideas before I commit resources to experiments. At the bench, I generate protocols and troubleshoot logistics in real time. With Claude Code, I automate data transformations and build analysis pipelines. As an MD-PhD student juggling course work, lab experiments, analysis, collaborations and scientific writing, having a tool this versatile has been transformative.”

Maia Madison, MD PhD Student, University of California, San Francisco

"I’ve been able to take advantage of Claude’s broad knowledge to connect a research problem in theoretical particle physics to techniques developed for industrial systems engineering and number theory. Claude Code has allowed me to identify and integrate well developed libraries into our niche problem setting and explore bespoke solutions that leverage advanced reasoning capabilities. It has dramatically changed the pace and ambition of this research project."

Kyle Cranmer, Professor and Director of the Data Science Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"'I figured out how to do [insert X] with Claude' has become a frequent refrain in discussions with my team. Claude is enabling my academic research group to acquire new skills and accomplish analysis tasks far more quickly."

Abby Buchwalter, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Principal investigators (PIs) or equivalent at accredited universities and nonprofit research institutes working in the natural sciences, mathematics, computer science, engineering, and related fields are eligible to apply.

If you are a for-profit company, contract research organization, or industry R&D team, please see our Team and Enterprise plans.

The plan includes everything in Claude Team: shared projects, Claude Science, Code, Cowork, file creation, built-in connectors to research databases, single sign-on, and central billing and administration with a minimum purchase of 1 seat.

If you're at a for-profit organization or don't meet the eligibility criteria, Claude Team and Claude Enterprise offer the same capabilities at standard pricing. Visit claude.com/pricing to compare plans, or contact our sales team for help choosing the right fit.

You'll confirm your institutional affiliation and tell us briefly about your research. Most applications are reviewed within 5-7 business days. You'll get an email when you're approved and can add seats right away.

Standard seats are free. Premium seats are $15 per month. This is promotional pricing for verified research groups, available for 12 months from when you sign up (or from Thursday, August 27, 2026) and offered to a limited number of groups. After 12 months, seats renew at the then-current price for this plan. We will notify admins before that happens.

AI for Science is Anthropic's grant program for ambitious research projects that need more credits than a seat provides. Groups on this plan can apply for extra usage or API credits to support months of sustained work. It's application-based and reviewed on merit.

If a group has no activity for 90 days, we may return it to standard Team pricing so the promotional seats go to active researchers. We'll email the admin before that happens.

No. Claude does not train on your conversations, uploaded files, or research data. Your unpublished findings, grant drafts, and proprietary datasets stay private. Admins can configure data retention policies for their team.

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