Anthropic Enterprise RBAC

Overview

Anthropic provides organization-level access control through Workspaces, API key scoping, and member roles via the Console at console.anthropic.com.

Organization Structure

Organization (billing entity)
├── Workspace: Production
│   ├── API Key: sk-ant-api03-prod-main-...
│   ├── API Key: sk-ant-api03-prod-batch-...
│   └── Rate limits: Tier 4
├── Workspace: Staging
│   ├── API Key: sk-ant-api03-stg-...
│   └── Rate limits: Tier 2
└── Workspace: Development
    ├── API Key: sk-ant-api03-dev-...
    └── Rate limits: Tier 1

Console Roles

Application-Level RBAC

# Implement your own RBAC on top of Anthropic Workspaces
from enum import Enum
import anthropic

class UserRole(Enum):
    VIEWER = "viewer"       # Can read Claude responses (no direct API)
    USER = "user"           # Can send prompts (rate limited)
    POWER_USER = "power"    # Can use Opus, higher limits
    ADMIN = "admin"         # Can access all models, no limits

ROLE_CONFIG = {
    UserRole.VIEWER: {"allowed": False},
    UserRole.USER: {
        "allowed": True,
        "models": ["claude-haiku-4-20250514"],
        "max_tokens": 512,
        "rpm_limit": 10,
    },
    UserRole.POWER_USER: {
        "allowed": True,
        "models": ["claude-haiku-4-20250514", "claude-sonnet-4-20250514", "claude-opus-4-20250514"],
        "max_tokens": 4096,
        "rpm_limit": 60,
    },
    UserRole.ADMIN: {
        "allowed": True,
        "models": ["claude-haiku-4-20250514", "claude-sonnet-4-20250514", "claude-opus-4-20250514"],
        "max_tokens": 8192,
        "rpm_limit": 200,
    },
}

def create_message(user_role: UserRole, model: str, **kwargs):
    config = ROLE_CONFIG[user_role]
    if not config["allowed"]:
        raise PermissionError("Role does not allow API access")
    if model not in config["models"]:
        raise PermissionError(f"Role cannot access model: {model}")
    kwargs["max_tokens"] = min(kwargs.get("max_tokens", 1024), config["max_tokens"])

    client = anthropic.Anthropic()
    return client.messages.create(model=model, **kwargs)

Key Management Best Practices

Error Handling

Resources

• Console
• Workspaces

Next Steps

For major migration strategies, see anth-migration-deep-dive.