Anthropic Commercial Terms of Service: Benchmark and Analysis Clause

Does Anthropic Commercial Terms of Service restrict publishing benchmarks or competitive analysis? Our reading of the terms on Oct 18, 2026: no clause found. Our reading · Observed Last checked Oct 18, 2026 · Source · Methodology

How we got this number

What we read: the official wording on www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms
Checked: Oct 18, 2026; tracked since Oct 16, 2026
Shown in: the United States
Checks so far: 3 checks since Oct 16, 2026
What changed: no change since Oct 16, 2026
Page updated: Oct 17, 2026

Other measured facts

Question	Answer	Checked	Status
Does Anthropic prohibit automated access or scraping of its web app, according to its Commercial Terms of Service?	No clause found	Oct 18, 2026	Observed
Does Anthropic use customer inputs to train models (by plan), according to its Commercial Terms of Service?	No	Oct 18, 2026	Observed
Does the Anthropic free tier allow commercial use, according to its Commercial Terms of Service?	No clause found	Oct 18, 2026	Observed
When was the Anthropic Commercial Terms of Service last updated?	2025-06-17 (effective date; no last-updated label found)	Oct 18, 2026	Observed

History

Same value in all 3 checks since Oct 16, 2026.

Record history — 15 records for 5 questions

Last record: Oct 18, 2026
Shown in: the United States

Does Anthropic Commercial Terms of Service restrict publishing benchmarks or competitive analysis?
Time	Value	Status
Oct 18, 2026	No clause found	Observed
Oct 17, 2026	No clause found	Observed
Oct 16, 2026	No clause found	Observed

Does Anthropic prohibit automated access or scraping of its web app, according to its Commercial Terms of Service?
Time	Value	Status
Oct 18, 2026	No clause found	Observed
Oct 17, 2026	No clause found	Observed
Oct 16, 2026	No clause found	Observed

Does Anthropic use customer inputs to train models (by plan), according to its Commercial Terms of Service?
Time	Value	Status
Oct 18, 2026	No	Observed
Oct 17, 2026	No	Observed
Oct 16, 2026	No	Observed

Does the Anthropic free tier allow commercial use, according to its Commercial Terms of Service?
Time	Value	Status
Oct 18, 2026	No clause found	Observed
Oct 17, 2026	No clause found	Observed
Oct 16, 2026	No clause found	Observed

When was the Anthropic Commercial Terms of Service last updated?
Time	Value	Status
Oct 18, 2026	2025-06-17 (effective date; no last-updated label found)	Observed
Oct 17, 2026	2025-06-17 (effective date; no last-updated label found)	Observed
Oct 16, 2026	2025-06-17 (effective date; no last-updated label found)	Observed

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