Comparison
Claude for lawyers vs a dedicated server, for client files
Is Claude safe enough for a law firm’s client documents?
The short answer
Anthropic’s business plans (Team and Enterprise) don’t train on your data by default, have SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, and offer legal plugins and integrations with Word, Outlook, iManage and NetDocuments. They run on Anthropic’s shared cloud service. ClientSafeAI runs its model on a server used by your firm alone.
- Pick Claude if you want a leading general-purpose assistant for the whole team, with legal plugins, integrations and independent audits, and shared cloud infrastructure is acceptable under your confidentiality duties.
- Pick ClientSafeAI if client documents must stay on a machine nobody else uses, and you’d rather pay one flat price for the whole firm than per seat.
Side by side
| Compared on | Claude (Team & Enterprise) | ClientSafeAI |
|---|---|---|
| Where the model runs | Anthropic’s cloud service. Anthropic’s plan pages describe no dedicated-hardware option. | On a GPU server dedicated to your firm, in the US by default or in another country as a customization. The AI model, database and files all run on that one machine. |
| Trains on your data? | Not by default on Team, Enterprise or the API. Consumer plans (Free, Pro, Max) have separate terms. | Never, on any plan. |
| Hardware shared with other customers? | Yes. It’s a multi-customer cloud service. | No. One customer per server. |
| Price | Team: $20 per seat per month billed yearly, $25 monthly (premium seats $100 or $125). Enterprise: $20 per seat per month billed yearly, plus usage at API rates. | $499/mo flat. Unlimited documents and questions, no per-seat pricing. |
| Minimum commitment | Team bills monthly or yearly. Enterprise is billed annually. | Month to month. Cancel any time. |
| Deletion | Enterprise admins can set a custom retention period, 30 days at minimum. Without one, data is kept indefinitely. | Documents stay on your firm’s server until you remove them. |
| Independent audits | SOC 2 Type I and Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 for commercial products. A HIPAA BAA is available. | No third-party audit report (SOC 2 or ISO) yet. We don’t sign HIPAA BAAs. |
When Claude (Team & Enterprise) is the better choice
- You want a general assistant for everyone in the firm, with legal plugins for commercial, corporate, IP and litigation work.
- You want it inside Word and Outlook and connected to iManage or NetDocuments.
- If a client requires SOC 2 Type II or ISO reports today, or you need a HIPAA BAA, Anthropic offers them. We don’t have the reports yet, and we don’t sign BAAs.
- Your team is small and occasional, and a per-seat plan costs less than $499 a month.
What ClientSafeAI actually is
A Private AI Workspace is a GPU server ordered for one firm. Your documents, the AI model and the database all live on it, and answers cite the page they came from. Call and meeting recordings are transcribed on the same server. It costs $499 a month, flat, with no per-seat pricing. How the data is handled is set out on the security page.
Talk to us about a Workspace
Every Workspace is set up by hand on its own server, so it starts with a short call about your documents and how your firm works.
Sources
Every statement about Anthropic above comes from these pages, checked September 30, 2026:
- Anthropic — Claude pricing (Team and Enterprise)
- Anthropic — Claude for legal (plugins, integrations)
- Anthropic — Is my data used for model training? (commercial products)
- Anthropic — Custom data retention for Enterprise
- Anthropic — Certifications
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