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### Can customers offer Claude Code in their products?
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99Your use of Claude Code is subject to:
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11* [Commercial Terms](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms) - for Team, Enterprise, and Claude API users
11* [Commercial Terms of Service](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms) - for Team, Enterprise, and Claude API users
1212* [Consumer Terms of Service](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms) - for Free, Pro, and Max users
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1414### Commercial agreements
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1616Whether you're using the Claude API directly (1P) or accessing it through Amazon Bedrock or Google Cloud's Agent Platform (3P), your existing commercial agreement will apply to Claude Code usage, unless we've mutually agreed otherwise.
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18### Can customers offer Claude Code in their products?
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20Unless we've mutually agreed otherwise, preinstalling or running Claude Code in your products or services (e.g. in hosted sandboxes or other agent infrastructure) requires agreeing to our [Commercial Terms of Service](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms) and complying with the conditions below:
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22* **The Claude Code binary must not be modified.** Claude Code must be installed and run as published by Anthropic, and customers may not remove, disable, or restrict any authentication method built into it (including methods that permit signing in with a Claude account or the user's own API key).
23* **Customers may not pay for, resell, or intermediate Claude usage on their end users' behalf.** Each end user must authenticate with their own Anthropic API key, Claude subscription plan credentials, or 3P inference provider credential (Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Agent Platform, Microsoft Foundry). That usage is billed directly to the end user under their own agreement with Anthropic or, for third-party inference providers, with the applicable provider.
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25**Using the Claude Code name and logo.** You can accurately say, in plain text, that your product has Claude Code preinstalled or that it runs Claude Code. But you can't use the Claude Code or Anthropic names or logos as part of your own product, feature, or company name, in your own logo, or in a way that suggests Anthropic built, endorses, or is partnered with your product. Any other use of Anthropic's names or logos is governed by our [Trademark Guidelines](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/trademark-guidelines) and requires our written permission.
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27Claude Code remains governed by Anthropic's standard terms (see the License and Commercial agreements sections above) regardless of the platform through which it is accessed.
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1829## Compliance
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2031### Healthcare compliance (BAA)
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22If a customer has a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with us, and wants to use Claude Code, the BAA will automatically extend to cover Claude Code if the customer has executed a BAA and has [Zero Data Retention (ZDR)](/docs/en/zero-data-retention) activated. The BAA will be applicable to that customer's API traffic flowing through Claude Code. ZDR is enabled on a per-organization basis, so each organization must have ZDR enabled separately to be covered under the BAA.
33If a customer has executed a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Anthropic and has [Zero Data Retention (ZDR)](/docs/en/zero-data-retention) enabled for the relevant organization, that BAA extends to the customer's API traffic through Claude Code.
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2435## Usage policy
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3243Claude Code authenticates with Anthropic's servers using OAuth tokens or API keys. These authentication methods serve different purposes:
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3445* **OAuth authentication** is intended exclusively for purchasers of Claude Free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscription plans and is designed to support ordinary use of Claude Code and other native Anthropic applications. For the sign-in steps, see [Logging in to your Claude account](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13189465-logging-in-to-your-claude-account); for how Claude Code performs OAuth authentication, see [Authentication](/docs/en/authentication).
35* **Developers** building products or services that interact with Claude's capabilities, including those using the [Agent SDK](/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview), should use API key authentication through [Claude Console](https://platform.claude.com/) or a supported cloud provider. Anthropic does not permit third-party developers to offer Claude.ai login or to route requests through Free, Pro, or Max plan credentials on behalf of their users.
46* **Developers** building products or services that interact with Claude's capabilities, including those using the [Agent SDK](/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview), should use API key authentication through [Claude Console](https://platform.claude.com/) or a supported cloud provider. Anthropic does not permit third-party developers to offer Claude.ai login into their own applications, or to route requests through Free, Pro, or Max plan credentials on behalf of their users. Moreover, developers may not collect, store, or intermediate Claude.ai credentials or session tokens — sign-in to a Claude account must complete through Anthropic's own flow.
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48This does not restrict how customers provision and manage their own API keys or third-party inference provider credentials — for example, configuring an API key in a development environment, secrets manager, or machine image for use by the customer's own authorized users — provided the resulting usage is billed to the key owner under their agreement with Anthropic (or the applicable provider) and is not resold or intermediated as described above. Nor does it prevent an end user from signing in to the unmodified Claude Code binary with their own Claude subscription, including where a platform hosts Claude Code as described under *Can customers offer Claude Code in their products?* above.
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3750Anthropic reserves the right to take measures to enforce these restrictions and may do so without prior notice.
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