Anvax vs. Claude Enterprise

Claude Enterprise is a capable assistant with good admin controls. But it runs only as Anthropic’s hosted service, on Claude models, with every token billed on top of the seat. Anvax runs inside your perimeter, on the models you choose.

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At a glance

One model family, or any model you approve.

Anvax

✓Runs on-premises, in your VPC or air-gapped
✓Data never leaves your perimeter
✓Open-weight and any-provider models
✓Redaction and audit in the data path
✓Platform pricing, not per seat
✓Permission-aware search across your systems

Claude Enterprise

!Anthropic’s cloud only
!Hosted, mainly in the US
!Claude models only
!Audit logs and log export
!Per seat plus all usage
!Through workplace connectors

What sets Anvax apart

AI your regulator can inspect, on infrastructure you control.

Runs where your data lives

On your servers, your private cloud or fully air-gapped. The same product in every deployment.

Governance in the data path

Redaction, prompt checks and model routing run before any model sees a request, with an audit entry for each.

Any model, no lock-in

Open-weight models on your hardware, or approved hosted providers, chosen per request by your policy.

Detailed comparison

Twelve questions a regulated buyer should ask.

Grouped the way risk, security and procurement teams review an AI platform.

1Deployment & data sovereignty 2Governance & security 3Knowledge & models 4Cost & rollout

Deployment & data sovereignty

Parameter

Anvax

Claude Enterprise

Where it runs

✓Runs on your servers, in your private cloud or fully air-gapped.

✓The same product in every deployment, not a reduced on-prem edition.

!Runs only as Anthropic’s hosted service.

!No on-premises, private-cloud or air-gapped option for the Claude app.

Data residency

✓Index, prompts, outputs and logs stay in infrastructure you control.

✓Nothing leaves your perimeter unless a policy you wrote allows it.

!Data is stored in the US.

!A US-only inference option, with limited regional choice elsewhere.

Vendor dependency

✓Keeps working if a model provider changes its terms, prices or regions.

✓Swap models or infrastructure without re-platforming.

!Tied to Anthropic’s models and roadmap.

!Leaving means re-platforming every workflow.

Governance & security

Parameter

Anvax

Claude Enterprise

Sensitive data

✓Personal data and account identifiers are redacted before any model sees them.

✓Redactions are shown to the user, so nothing disappears silently.

!No built-in redaction before content reaches the model.

!Sensitive-data control relies on policy and user behaviour.

Prompt and model controls

✓Prompt-injection checks run on every request.

✓The model gateway enforces which model may see which data.

!Safety behaviour is set by Anthropic, not by your policy.

!No per-request routing rules you define.

Audit trail

✓An immutable audit entry for every answer: sources, model and redactions.

✓Records an examiner can read, exported from storage you own.

✓Audit logs and a Compliance API.

!You assemble the full trail in your own tools.

Permissions

✓Inherits permissions from every source system.

✓Anvax can narrow access further, never widen it.

✓Connectors follow source permissions.

!Not a dedicated, permission-synced index.

Knowledge & models

Parameter

Anvax

Claude Enterprise

Model choice

✓Run open-weight models on your own hardware.

✓Route approved requests to any hosted provider, after redaction.

!Claude models only.

!No other providers and no open-weight or self-hosted models.

Enterprise search

✓Permission-aware search across documents, tickets, CRM and data platforms.

✓Every answer cites the source it came from.

✓Connectors for Google, Microsoft, Slack, GitHub and others.

!Queried through connectors, not a dedicated enterprise index.

Workflows and agents

✓Ready-made workflows for regulated teams, editable by your staff.

✓Agents run inside the same governance pipeline as chat.

✓Projects, skills and agentic coding tools.

!General-purpose, not built for regulated workflows.

Cost & rollout

Parameter

Anvax

Claude Enterprise

Pricing model

✓Platform pricing, not per seat.

✓Roll out to every employee without headcount driving the bill.

!$20 per seat per month, billed annually, 20-seat minimum.

!All usage billed on top at API rates.

Time to value

✓First team live within a few weeks.

✓Start with one department and two or three workflows, then expand.

✓Quick to start for general use.

!Regulated rollouts wait on review of a hosted, US-based service.

Claude Enterprise details from Anthropic’s published pricing and independent reviews, checked October 2026. Plans changed during 2026; confirm current terms with Anthropic.

Which is right for you

Choose by your constraint.

Anvax is best for

→Regulated teams whose data cannot leave their perimeter
→Organisations that need on-premises or air-gapped AI
→Teams that must show an examiner how every answer was produced
→Companies that want model choice without lock-in

Claude Enterprise is best for

→Teams that want Claude models for writing, analysis and coding
→Organisations comfortable with a US-hosted service
→Developer-heavy teams using agentic coding
→Low-risk work that never touches regulated data

FAQs

Anthropic says it does not train on business customer data. For regulated teams the bigger questions are where the data is processed and who operates the infrastructure. With Anvax, both stay with you.

Use any model. Keep every request inside your walls.

We will show you Anvax routing between open-weight and hosted models, with redaction and an audit record on every request.

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