AI Tools

AI Tools

Tools and Services

Compare AI tools available from HUIT

General use tools API access and developer tools
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Overview

On this page, you can find AI tools currently available from HUIT. Your School’s local IT department may also offer additional tools.

There are three tiers of AI tools available from HUIT:

  • General use / Free: Widely available; good for experimentation and daily productivity tasks for most members of the Harvard community. 
  • General use / Additional cost: Available by request; include access to higher performance models and higher usage limits for advanced tasks. 
  • Specialist use: API access and developer tools.

 

General use tools

Below, you'll find a comparison of tools by some of the most commonly used or requested features. 

Security

  • All tools listed below are approved for use with up to Level 3 confidential data when logged in with your Harvard account.
  • Not approved for use with Level 4 confidential data, including HIPAA, FERPA, and PHI

Privacy

  • When logged in with your Harvard account, data you enter into the below tools will not be used to train vendor models

Features

  • Learn more about advanced features and guidance on responsible use on the AI Features page.
  • AI tools are constantly changing and adding new features. Most new features require security and privacy review before they are enabled in Harvard tools. If a feature has been publicly announced by a vendor, it may not be immediately available.

Connectors

  • Learn how to access approved connectors to integrate with each tool on the AI Connectors page. 
Harvard AI Sandbox

Free

✅ 
(Available models)

❌

⚠️ 
(Limited, cloud-only sandbox)

✅

❌

❌

Google Gemini (Basic)

Free

❌

✅

✅

✅

✅
(Studio)

✅

Microsoft Copilot (Basic)

Free

❌

✅

❌

✅

❌

✅

Anthropic Claude

$
By request

❌

✅

✅ 
(Code)

❌

✅ 
(Cowork)

✅

OpenAI ChatGPT Edu

$
By request

❌

✅

✅ 
(Codex)

✅

✅ 
(Work)

✅

Google Gemini (Pro)

$
By request

❌

✅

✅

✅

✅
(Studio)

✅

Microsoft Copilot (Premium)

$
By request

❌

✅

❌

✅

✅ 
(Copilot Agent Builder)

✅

 

API access and developer tools

ToolAvailability / CostFeatures
AI APIs and Developer Tools
Self-service AI API access for eligible users is available through Harvard’s API Platform. These include pay-as-you-go or limited-access, credit-redemption options.
  • Programmatic access to Generative AI APIs for services from providers including AWS Bedrock (for Anthropic, Meta, and other model families), OpenAI Direct, and Google Gemini. 
  • Majority of popular endpoints, capabilities and models are provided in support of research-scale workloads, app integrations, coding tools compatibility.