In brief: Anthropic now also offers Claude Code as a self-hosted beta, allowing sessions to run within a company’s own network and compliance environment instead of on Anthropic infrastructure, but this requires dedicated in-house engineering for setup and maintenance.
Anthropic now enables companies to run Claude Code sessions within their own network environment instead of on Anthropic infrastructure. The feature has recently entered public beta.
With the new self-hosted mode, Claude Code sessions can be started via web, mobile, desktop, or automated workflows and run within the company’s own corporate network, directly alongside internal services, toolchains, and security controls, instead of on infrastructure hosted by Anthropic. Anthropic itself continues to recommend the hosted variant for most organizations, since it requires no infrastructure operations of their own. The self-hosted option is aimed specifically at teams whose network, tooling, or compliance requirements demand that agent execution take place on self-controlled infrastructure.
For CTOs, this means an additional architectural decision: according to Anthropic, organizations that choose self-hosted operation must plan for dedicated engineering staff for setup and ongoing maintenance. This is therefore not merely a configuration option, but an operating model with a permanent resource requirement within the organization’s own team.
Anthropic cites three reasons that led organizations in the preview program to adopt the self-hosted mode: first, network access, since sessions run within the organization’s own network and can thus access internal services, databases, and registries without exposing them to the public internet. Second, customizability, since compilers, SDKs, and internal CLIs can be pre-installed in the organization’s own environment, so that every session starts ready to use immediately. Third, compliance, since source code and build artifacts remain on self-controlled infrastructure at all times.
For enterprise environments with strict requirements around data residency, network segmentation, or air-gapping, this offering closes a gap compared to the previously purely hosted use of Claude Code. The decision between the hosted and self-operated model should be weighed against the actual staffing and maintenance effort that Anthropic itself names as a prerequisite for the self-hosted path.
Source: claude.com · Published August 5, 2026
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