Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork for Enterprise plans

Anthropic says the unified Claude experience, which brought chat and Cowork together for Pro and Max plans in September, is now generally available for Claude Enterprise plans.

According to Anthropic:

• Chat and Cowork are one Claude on web, desktop and mobile. A conversation starts as a chat; when a task needs to run code or work with files, Claude continues in the cloud and returns the finished document, analysis or deck. The work keeps running after the user closes their laptop. Chats, projects, connectors, skills and plugins carry over.
• Agentic work runs in cloud sessions, each in its own isolated virtual machine, with network egress off by default for Enterprise and connector credentials kept outside the sandbox. SSO and the Compliance API apply as before.
• Pricing stays usage-based. Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 costs 40% less to run than Claude Opus 5 on typical workloads, and Claude Sonnet 5.5 up to 30% less than Sonnet 5 for most work, while agentic work can use more tokens than a quick chat.
• Admins get four cost controls: a new Efficient mode that keeps the unified experience on Sonnet and Haiku models, model entitlements by role, spend limits at organization, group and member level, and pooled group budgets.
• Admins manage the rollout in Organization settings. Organizations using zero data retention for Claude Code, a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys stay on their current configuration.