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An enterprise legal team is deciding whether developers may send proprietary code to the Claude API under Anthropic's Commercial Terms. The organization has no zero-data-retention arrangement and is not in the Development Partner Program.
What is Anthropic's default handling of the inputs and outputs of those API requests?
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Answer: API inputs and outputs are not used to train Anthropic's models by default
Under the Commercial Terms, retained data is never used for model training without the customer's express permission, so the default is no training use and no opt-out is needed. Training is not opt-out in the Console; that is the consumer model. Zero data retention is not a default, it is arranged per organization with the account team. And the 30-day figure that applies to some models is a retention limit, not a route into the training corpus.