What is Anthropic Ireland, Limited?

Anthropic Ireland, Limited is Anthropic's Irish subsidiary, registered with the Irish Companies Registration Office under number 760497. It was incorporated on 22 March 2024 as a private company limited by shares, with its registered office at 6th Floor, South Bank House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4. It is part of the Anthropic group whose ultimate parent is Anthropic, PBC, the Delaware Public Benefit Corporation based in San Francisco that makes Claude. It is a real, legitimate legal entity, not a scam or an impostor.

If you have an active Claude Pro, Claude Max, Claude Team, or Anthropic API account, a charge tied to the Anthropic name is the expected billing for that subscription. Claude charges commonly appear as descriptors like 'ANTHROPIC', 'ANTHROPIC CLAUDE TEAM', or a Stripe-processed variant, and the Anthropic group operates the Irish entity as part of its European presence. The fastest way to confirm any specific charge is to open your account at claude.ai or console.anthropic.com and match the amount and date to a receipt. If you have no Anthropic account at all and still see a charge, treat it like any unrecognized charge and contact your bank.

No, they are separate legal entities in the same group. Anthropic, PBC is the US parent, a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Anthropic Ireland, Limited is an Irish subsidiary (CRO 760497). There is also Anthropic Limited in the UK (Companies House number 14604577). Each entity has its own registration number, address, and local filing obligations, but they roll up to the same group under Anthropic, PBC.

Ireland is the standard place for US technology companies to base a European subsidiary: it is an English-speaking EU member state with a corporate-services ecosystem built for exactly this. Setting up a local entity is part of operating in Europe (hiring, contracts, local presence, and eventually local tax and billing arrangements). The 22 March 2024 incorporation date lines up with Anthropic building out its European footprint as Claude adoption grew.

Not as of mid-2026. Even though the Irish entity exists, the seller line on Claude invoices issued into the EU still reads Anthropic, PBC at the San Francisco address, with VAT handled through Stripe Tax under a non-resident digital-services scheme. The Dublin subsidiary is an operational European entity, not the invoicing entity for Claude billing yet. If you need the tax and accounting detail, see the companion guide on the Anthropic Ireland VAT question.

CRO 760497 is the company registration number issued by the Irish Companies Registration Office for Anthropic Ireland, Limited. It proves the company exists and is on the Irish register. Note that a CRO number is not a VAT number; Irish VAT numbers use the format IE followed by 7 digits and 1 to 2 letters and live in a separate register (validated through EU VIES), and no VIES-valid Irish VAT number has been published for this entity.

On the Irish register it is classified under NACE activity code 6209, 'Other information technology and computer service activities', which matches Anthropic's Claude products as digital services. In practical terms it is the group's Irish corporate presence. Its registered office at 6th Floor, South Bank House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4 is a shared corporate-services address commonly used by US companies establishing an Irish entity, so the address itself is not evidence of a large on-site office.

Search the Irish Companies Registration Office at cro.ie for company number 760497 to see the official record (registered name, address, status, and filing history). Third-party sites like vision-net.ie, solocheck.ie, and northdata.com mirror the same CRO data and can be quicker to read, but cro.ie is the authoritative source. For the UK sister entity, use the UK Companies House service for company 14604577.