Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, and companies buy it through the Claude Enterprise plan. Each seat gives your teams Claude on web, desktop and mobile, plus Claude Code and Cowork, with the admin controls IT expects.
CopilotKit Soar gives your company self-hosted AI coworkers that run on your own servers and connect to the tools you already use. It's fully customizable, works with any agent harness and any model, including Claude, and keeps learning from how your teams work. Our engineers set it up under your brand.
For a business, the difference comes down to where the product runs, who holds your chats, whether you can bring your own agents and models, and how every action is checked.
Anthropic built the Enterprise plan for organizations that need "advanced security, compliance controls, and scalable AI across their teams." It includes SSO and SCIM, role-based access control, audit logs with OpenTelemetry monitoring and a Compliance API. Companies can also bring their own encryption key and set custom data retention, and Anthropic doesn't train on commercial data by default. Enterprise can also be bought through AWS Marketplace.
Claude Enterprise runs on Anthropic's service, and Anthropic retains your chats and coding sessions in the product. For developers, Anthropic offers self-hosted runners for Claude Code sessions in public beta. Claude Tag brings Claude into Slack, also in public beta, with Microsoft Teams coming soon.
Over the past few months, we open-sourced our own versions of the big AI coworker products: OpenBot (Grok Bot), OpenMuse (Meta Muse), OpenDots (OpenAI dots) and OpenTag (Claude Tag). CopilotKit Soar turns that core into one business-ready product for companies that want AI coworkers on their own terms.
Your teams share AI coworkers that use your apps, finish real work and get better the more they're used. Each coworker can get its own computer and follows the rules your IT team writes. Coworkers show up in the Soar app on web, desktop and mobile, and in Slack and Microsoft Teams.
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Both give your team AI coworkers that work across your tools, with company sign-in and audit logs. The differences show up in where the product runs, who holds the data and which models you can use.
SKILL.md file you can download with the CLIClaude remembers what each user tells it. Soar's coworkers learn from the work your teams do, everything they learn is visible and reviewable, and your company decides what sticks. All of it runs on CopilotKit Intelligence, which you can self-host or use in our cloud.
With User Memories, each coworker keeps your people's preferences and project context across conversations, for one user or shared across a project. Your team can list, update or remove any memory.
With CLiF, your team can show a coworker a task once in the browser, and Soar learns and repeats it. Admins manage learning centrally, and each coworker learns in its own container.
With Automatic Learning, Soar also reads your coworkers' finished threads, finds the patterns and proposes each insight as a skill. Every skill is a SKILL.md your team reviews, and it reaches your coworkers only after a person approves it.
Claude Enterprise fits companies that want Anthropic's assistant and agent products, run by Anthropic, with strong admin controls.
CopilotKit Soar fits companies that:
1. What's the difference between CopilotKit Soar and Claude?
Claude Enterprise is Anthropic's assistant, run on Anthropic's service with Claude models. CopilotKit Soar runs on your own servers, works with any agent and any model, including Claude, and is set up by our engineers under your brand.
2. Can I use Claude models in CopilotKit Soar?
Yes. Soar lets you pick Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or any OpenAI-compatible model, and agents built with the Claude Agent SDK join as coworkers. Claude becomes one of the models your coworkers use.
3. Can CopilotKit Soar be self-hosted?
Yes. Soar runs on a single machine with Docker, or on Kubernetes with Helm on EKS, AKS, GKE or your own cluster. The Claude app runs on Anthropic's service, with self-hosted runners in public beta for Claude Code sessions.
4. Is there an open source version of Claude Tag?
Yes. OpenTag is CopilotKit's open-source version of Claude Tag, a self-hosted agent for Slack and Microsoft Teams that developers build on. CopilotKit Soar is the version companies run, with setup on your servers, your branding and support from our engineers.
5. Does CopilotKit Soar have SSO and audit logs?
Yes. Soar includes Google, Microsoft, Okta, SAML and OIDC sign-in, SCIM 2.0 and an audit trail that streams to your SIEM. Claude Enterprise has SSO, SCIM and audit logs too. Soar also checks every action against your rules before it runs.
6. How do I get CopilotKit Soar?
Soar is in early access. Book a meeting at copilotkit.ai/soar and our engineers will build your first AI coworker with you.
CopilotKit Soar brings self-hosted AI coworkers to every team, on your servers and under your rules. To see everything it can do, refer to the CopilotKit Soar product page.
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Read more of our comparison blogs on CopilotKit Soar and other AI coworker products:
If you want to see Soar in action, we suggest booking a demo. Our engineering team will build your first AI coworker with you and provide dedicated support as your team grows.
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