Claude.ai changed its Developer Terms
3 passages changed. Red lines were removed and green lines were added; within an edited sentence, the exact words are highlighted, and removed words are struck through. These are excerpts, cut to the part that changed.
11… or other financial assets, or executes financial transactions on behalf of users. B. Software that uses AI models to generate images, video, or audio content. Design-focused software that uses AI models to create visual …… or other financial assets, or executes financial transactions autonomously on behalf of users, without human-in-the-loop safeguards. B. Software that uses AI models to generate images, video, or audio content. Only design-focused image software that uses AI models to exclusively create visual …11… not violate or facilitate violation of our Usage Policy. All Software must comply with our Universal Usage Standards and High-Risk Use Case requirements and with our …… not violate or facilitate violation of our Usage Policy, including high-risk use cases around legal, healthcare, insurance, finance and other areas. All Software must comply with our Universal Usage Standards and High-Risk Use Case requirements and with our …11H. Developers must agree to our Software Directory …H. Developers must notify Anthropic of material changes to their Software’s functionality, tool or capability descriptions, data practices, or connected endpoints after inclusion in a Directory. Material changes may be subject to re-review. I. Developers must agree to our Software Directory …Sources
How this was checked
The change is dated Oct 24, 2026, the day the new version of the document was archived. Documents are fetched about once a day. Two automatic steps stand behind this page, and neither is a person.
First, an AI model decides which changes are worth an alert. It reads each change and drops typos and reformatting. It can be wrong: it can send a change that does not matter and skip one that does.
Second, a program checked the quoted passages on Oct 30, 2026. It matched every quoted passage word for word against the archived copy of the document, and confirmed that at least one added passage is new text, absent from the version before, and that at least one removed passage is gone from the new version. That makes the quotes real. It does not prove that the AI picked the right changes, so the quotes and the Sources above are the evidence, not the AI’s decision.
The labels at the top are also assigned by an AI model. The program does not check them. Trust the quoted words, and read the original if a label matters to you.
What the labels mean
A label is a tag on a change. An AI model assigns it, and a person does not check it. A change can have several, or none.
- Data use: what the company collects about you, how long it keeps it, and who it shares it with.
- Usage tracking: data about how you use the product, such as what you click, plus crash and diagnostic reports.
- Ads & money: advertising, selling or sharing data for money, and anything that costs you.
- Your rights: what you can ask for or do: delete your data, opt out, sue, or go to arbitration.
- AI: your content or data being used to train or run AI.
- Pricing: prices, fees, plan limits and billing rules.
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