An assistant for demanding individual work, an employee for workflows. The facts side by side.
Claude by Anthropic is first and foremost a chat assistant: a person asks a question or gives a task, Claude answers. Claude Cowork adds a task mode that takes on work in approved folders and tools, with its own browser and scheduled tasks that run unattended2. These remain tools that each person sets up, starts and checks themselves.
An AI employee from bee-hub.ai is not another tool for individuals. It takes over a defined workflow in your business, works in the background in your ERP and inbox and presents results for approval. bee-hub.ai is responsible for setup, operation and maintenance.
| Claude Team | bee-hub.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Chat assistant with the Claude Cowork task mode, plus connectors, Claude Code and Claude for Microsoft 3651,2 | AI employees, trained on a defined workflow in your business |
| Who does the work | The person; Cowork takes on tasks in approved tools, including scheduled and unattended ones2 | The AI employee; a person reviews and approves |
| Pricing | Per seat per month: €18 Standard, €90 Premium, billed annually, excl. tax; Enterprise US$20 per seat plus usage at API rates1 | Per AI employee; AI chat for all staff at no extra cost |
| Where the data lives | US provider; data stored in the US according to Anthropic4 | Your server, private cloud or a German hosting provider; language model from a European provider5 |
| Training on your data | No training on customer content under the commercial terms1,3 | Excluded by contract5 |
| Work in the ERP | Connectors, for example to Microsoft 365 and Google Drive, and a browser for web apps; tasks run on behalf of the individual person2 | Works inside your existing ERP, DMS and email, like an additional employee |
| Who is in control | Users within their permissions; Team and Enterprise administrators control access and tools centrally1,2 | An agreed workflow with rules, approvals and a log, set up by bee-hub.ai |
| Setup and operation | Self-service; each person grants access to folders and tools themselves2 | Onboarding, operation and maintenance by bee-hub.ai |
The real difference lies in who sets things up, who maintains them and who is responsible.
Set it up and maintain it yourself, or have it set up and maintained.
Who is the expert for that in your company?
At bee-hub.ai, every AI employee is limited to one purpose and works mostly by fixed rules. We only deploy fully autonomous agents when explicitly commissioned.
Claude supports the knowledge work of individuals.
The AI employee takes over the workflow in your business.
No. Claude is a chat assistant that, with Cowork, also takes on individual tasks, always on behalf of the person who starts them2. bee-hub.ai provides AI employees that take over a defined workflow, such as entering orders from the inbox into the ERP. They work inside your existing systems and present results for approval.
According to Anthropic, claude.ai data is stored in the US4. Processing can take place in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia; Enterprise customers with usage-based billing can choose the processing location, while storage remains in the US4. At bee-hub.ai, data lives on your server, in a private cloud or with a German hosting provider5.
Not under Anthropic's commercial terms: customer content from the services may not be used for model training3. At bee-hub.ai, training on your data is excluded by contract.
Cowork works through connectors, for example to Microsoft 365 and Google Drive, and through its own browser for web apps; tasks run on behalf of the individual person2. An AI employee from bee-hub.ai works inside your existing ERP; bee-hub.ai handles the connection, and we clarify the technical requirements before you commission us.
30 minutes, one process from your business.