Claude AI Services
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Claude puts powerful generative AI capabilities at your fingertips to help you work smarter, tackle complex tasks, and get more done.
Claude is an AI assistant from Anthropic that can help you write, analyze information, brainstorm ideas, conduct research, summarize documents, solve problems, and complete other complex tasks.
Instructors, researchers and staff can purchase Claude™ Enterprise licenses to help leverage advanced generative AI capabilities for a wide range of tasks. Like our other AI offerings, purchasing a license under the university's contract ensures that prompts and inputs will not be used for training future AI models. Student licenses may be purchased with faculty or staff sponsorship.
Ohio State will offer Anthropic’s Enterprise platform, providing a secure, university-managed AI environment with enhanced capabilities beyond standard team-based offerings. This includes access to Claude Cowork and Claude Code, as well as access to advanced tools such as Claude Science and Fable, expanding opportunities for teaching, learning, research and administrative work.
Subscription pricing aligns with Anthropic’s published tiers while enabling departments and units to purchase licenses through established university procurement processes, eliminating the need for individual credit card purchases. The service is centrally managed to provide a consistent user experience, streamlined administration, single sign-on (SSO) integration and university-approved security controls, reducing the need for departments to maintain separate Anthropic environments. Like most of our services, you must use your university lastname.#@osu.edu and password. Do not use an @osumc.osu.edu email.
Two Claude license options will be available through the on-demand software catalog using Buckeye Buy. Individuals and units interested in using Claude can choose from two available license options and purchase a subscription using a two-step process. First, users will obtain fiscal approval through Buckeye Buy. Licenses are then provisioned via the on-demand software catalog:
- Standard License at $216/year and is roughly equivalent to Claude’s consumer Pro edition, designed for regular AI users.
- Premium License at $600/year is roughly equivalent to Claude’s Max edition, designed for users with heavier or more frequent AI needs.
These offerings provide a cost-effective option for heavy AI users compared with paying for individual API or token usage. They also provide Ohio State with additional governance and security controls while helping bring existing AI use cases into supported university services.
Approved for Some Forms of Institutional Data
Claude is a collaborative tool designed to enable research in pursuit of the AI fluency initiative. It is approved for use with S4 Research Data, Research Health Information, and FERPA data. It is not approved for regulated data including (but not limited to) PCI, ITAR, CUI, and HIPAA.
If you have questions about the sensitivity of data you plan to use with these services, please email datagovernance@osu.edu. Ensuring that only approved data types are uploaded to Claude services is the responsibility of the end-user of the service. External sharing of certain data types may be disabled if it is identified by our security platform, but users must still validate that all uploaded data types are approved.
Claude is NOT approved for PHI and data protected under HIPAA.
- Making Ohio State’s Claude environment HIPAA-enabled would remove access to research features such as Claude Science and the Life Sciences Verification Program.
- Researchers who need PHI support should use other approved cloud provider solutions.
Training Resources
Explore Anthropic's training and certification offerings, from free self-paced learning for all users to advanced, partner-exclusive programs for organizations implementing Claude.
- Anthropic Academy is an official, free online learning platform launched by Anthropic to provide structured, self-paced courses and certifications on using Claude and building AI applications. Similar to Ohio State's Google Career Certificates model, colleges and programs can incorporate and deliver Anthropic Academy content directly within academic courses and learning experiences.
- Anthropic Partner Academy is Anthropic's official training and certification platform for members of the Claude Partner Network. Designed specifically for consultants, developers, solution architects, and partner organizations, it provides structured learning paths, product training, hands-on technical resources, certifications, and partner-exclusive content focused on deploying and supporting Claude for customers. Unlike Anthropic Academy's public courses, Partner Academy is available only to validated partners and requires partner verification and additional login validation. This platform includes specialized training, certifications, and resources that help organizations build, advise on, and deliver Claude-powered solutions in enterprise environments.
Note for Researchers: DoD Ban
In February 2026, the federal administration directed federal agencies to immediately cease all use of Anthropic’s technology. In response, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a specific ban designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk to national security and prohibiting contractors from using Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology. While the ban has faced legal challenges, researchers working on Department of Defense-funded projects should consider the implications of using Anthropic products (including Claude and Anthropic APIs) on DoD projects. You can read more in the federal directive.
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some frequently asked questions. As the service evolves, we’ll continue updating this list with additional FAQs.
Can we share licenses within our department?
Each license includes its own usage allowance; usage is not pooled across users.
What research programs are available through Claude?
Ohio State is eligible for Anthropic’s Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP), which provides verified researchers with access to more advanced biology-related capabilities. Contact OTDI for assistance getting started.
Anthropic’s Claude Team Plan for Scientists is not available to Ohio State researchers because it is limited to institutions that do not have an enterprise agreement with Anthropic.
Are there any special considerations when using agentic tools such as Claude Code or Claude Cowork?
Yes. Agentic tools such as Claude Code and Claude Cowork use your own access and permissions when taking actions. Any actions they perform are recorded under your account, so you should carefully review and approve any significant or irreversible changes before proceeding.
Use Approved AI tools
New AI tools are released daily, and university technology teams evaluate these tools to ensure they are accessible, secure and effective. For an overview of all available AI tools, see Ohio State’s Approved AI Tools. Ohio State AI services may only be accessed through university-approved AI environments, including Ohio State Google, Ohio State AWS, Ohio State and Medical Center Microsoft 365, and Ohio State Claude.
Approved AI tools are provisioned by the university and should be accessed using your university credentials. Faculty and staff should ensure they are logged in with their university credentials to protect institutional data. Accessing or storing university data in personal or unapproved AI environments is not permitted, even if you signed up using your university email address.
University community members should not enter any institutional data that is categorized above the S1 (public) level into unvetted AI tools. Learn more about institutional data classifications as they relate to AI in the “Security and Privacy Statement on Artificial Intelligence.”
Students should use GenAI tools for coursework only with the explicit permission of each instructor, in the ways allowed by that instructor. For an overview of all available AI tools, see Ohio State’s Approved AI Tools.