Expanding our support for scientists

Anthropic is pushing Claude deeper into science. The company says it’s building products and programs around research use, and after launching Claude Science in June, it is now expanding that effort with a new team plan for scientists.

The headline move is simple: 10,000 seats for scientists around the world. Standard seats will be free for a year, while premium seats with 5x usage limits will cost $15 a month. Anthropic says it plans to extend the program well beyond those first 10,000 seats over the coming months.

This is not just about subscriptions. Anthropic is also broadening its AI for Science program, which has mostly backed biological science so far. Now the company wants to offer credits to researchers in other fields too, including work that is compute-heavy and ambitious, like the kind that led to progress on the Riemann zeta function and Claude’s protein design work.

There’s a gate, though. To join the new team plan, a researcher has to be a principal investigator or equivalent at an academic or nonprofit research institution, and then can add lab members. Labs can also apply for up to $50,000 in credits per project through the AI for Science program once their allotted credits run low.

Anthropic is keeping biology and chemistry on a shorter leash for now. Researchers in those areas are still limited to Opus-class models, while Claude Fable models continue to block professional biology and drug development queries because of dual-use risk. The company says it is working with the US government on an access program for life sciences professionals to use Mythos-class models, and says its first participants are already enrolled.