Anthropic launched the Claude Marketplace, giving businesses access to powerful Claude tools from Replit, GitLab, Harvey and more.

San Francisco startup Anthropic continues to ship new AI products and services at a rapid pace, despite an ongoing dispute with the US Department of Defense.

Today, the company announced the Claude Marketplace, a new offering that allows businesses responsible for spending Anthropic money to use their share of tools and applications powered by Anthropic’s Claude models but developed and provided by external partners including GitLab, Harvey, Lovable, Replit, Rogo and Snowflake.

According to Anthropic’s Claude Marketplace FAQ, the system is designed to simplify procurement and integrate the use of AI. Anthropic says Marketplace is now in limited preview and businesses interested in using it should reach out to their Anthropic account team to get started.

For customers interested in Marketplace, Anthropic says purchases made through it “count against a portion of your existing Anthropic commitment,” and that the company will handle invoicing for partner spend — meaning businesses can use a portion of their existing Anthropic commitment to purchase Claude-powered partner solutions without separately managing partner invoices. Essentially, Anthropic is positioning the Claude Marketplace as a centralized way for businesses to access specific tools from Claude’s powerful partners.

However, the whole point of Anthropic’s Claude Code and Claude Cowork applications for many users was that they could shift business usage and time away from current software-as-a-service (Saas) applications and instead, they could “vibe code” new solutions or bespoke, AI-enabled workflows. This view is so prevalent that Claude’s previous integration in the last few moments has caused a huge sell-off in SaaS shares after investors thought that Claude could threaten the underlying companies and applications.

The Claude Marketplace seems to contradict that idea, suggesting that current SaaS applications are still relevant and perhaps even more useful and attractive to the businesses that Claude has integrated into them.

The launch raises the broader question of how businesses will choose to use Claude: directly through Anthropic products and APIs, or through third-party applications that embed Claude for more specialized workflows.

Integration of tools

Models and forums have always wanted to offer integration, which aims to reduce the time users spend creating their own version of the application.

OpenAI added third-party apps to ChatGPT and launched a new App Directory in December 2025. This brought offers from companies like Canva, Expedia and Figma that users could request by using the “@” mention while going to the chatbot.

However, three months in, it’s not clear how many people are using ChatGPT Apps, especially for businesses – will Claude’s Marketplace be able to achieve more success here, given the business growth of Claude’s and Anthropic’s products?

ChatGPT’s focus in its integrated applications has been on sales and operations focused on the individual consumer rather than the enterprise at large, but the company has also tried to appeal to that market with new ChatGPT plugins released alongside its new GPT-5.4 this week.

Other markets for AI tools have also grown. Lightning AI launched AI Hub last year following similar moves from AWS and Hugging Face. Many AI marketplaces, like Salesforce’s, focus on emerging AI agencies that may already have the skills clients need.

How does the Anthropic solution stand out in this regard? When asked, the spokesman replied:

“Claude is a model – he reasons, writes, analyzes, and codes. But Harvey is not just Claude with legal agility. It is a purpose-built platform built for how legal teams really work – with domain technology, workflow integration, compliance infrastructure, and the institutional knowledge that businesses need. Similar to Rogose for Snowflab’s financial development software. Our partners have spent years building a product layer on top of Claude that makes it usable. in certain industries and workflows Thousands of businesses use Claude power in their products – and the best build something Claude alone can’t replicate Claude Marketplace is not Anthropic trying to replace Clanthropic tools to make it easier to manage a different procurement process Claude intelligence layer.

Native vs. App

Business users modify their Claude or ChatGPT platforms to see what they like, connect to their data sources and maintain context. Much of how people use business AI these days is focused on customization, making the system work for their needs.

Platforms like OpenClaw also allow people to set up independent agents who can have full access to their computers to complete tasks and implement workflows. In other words, Claude and other platforms can already do most of the work these third-party Marketplace tools allow – as long as they have the right context and data.

However, third-party tools and integrations allow business users to avoid doing the work themselves and instead ask an existing tool to manage it. For those whose businesses are built around linear, tool-based workflows, Marketplace may be the right AI combination for them. In addition, there’s a good chance that businesses that already pay for Claude can now take advantage of the new Marketplace to test third-party tools and services that they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Although it is not yet clear what the Claude Marketplace will look like, it is possible that, with these tools, businesses can use Claude as an orchestrator, where the platform acts as a command center that touches the right tool and reaches the right context without being constantly instructed.

Observers noted that Claude Marketplace offers businesses a way to “pre-authorize” apps, bypassing the often lengthy and cautious approval process.

Some people have noted that Anthropic’s move follows how many businesses will want to work directly with platforms without requiring users to go to their separate devices.

Anthropic’s biggest challenge with Claude Marketplace, however, is discovery. Many of its launch partners already have enterprise customers using their tools via API or already connected via MCP or other context protocols.

Some users may already have apps with vibe code that go into this integration. Now it’s a matter of business users showing that they want to use these new tools within their Claude workflow.