Claude

Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant for learning, writing, analysis, research, coding, and creative work. It can analyze documents and images, search the web, organize Projects, create Artifacts, connect tools, and run code or data analysis where available. Access and limits vary by plan and workspace.

✨ Key Features

• Conversational reasoning — Explain difficult concepts, answer questions, brainstorm, revise writing, and maintain context across follow-up turns.
• Document and image analysis — Upload supported PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets, images, and other content for analysis and question answering.
• Web search and citations — Search current web sources and return cited answers when web search is enabled; search and fetch usage count toward limits.
• Projects — Free users can create up to 5 focused workspaces. Paid plans expand project knowledge handling; project instructions and collaboration depend on the eligible plan.
• Artifacts — Turn ideas into standalone documents, code, diagrams, visualizations, websites, and interactive experiences that can be reviewed and shared.
• Research — Combine web search, connected sources, and citations to produce a multi-source report on eligible plans.
• Integrations and connectors — Connect Google Workspace, remote MCP servers, and supported tools such as Asana, Atlassian, Linear, Notion, and other services.
• Code assistance — Write, explain, analyze, and debug code; Claude Code is available separately or through eligible plan access.
• Data analysis and visualization — Run supported code or analyze uploaded data to find patterns, calculate statistics, and create charts.

💳 Pricing

• Free — US$0 with limited usage; up to 5 Projects. Paid plans expand usage and project knowledge handling.
• Pro — US$20 monthly, or the displayed approximately US$17/month equivalent with US$200 paid annually.
• Max — US$100 or US$200/person/month for the 5x or 20x usage options.
• Team — For 2–150 people. Standard is US$25/seat/month monthly or US$20/seat/month annually. Premium is US$125 monthly or US$100 annually. Annual totals are US$240 and US$1,200 per seat respectively.
• Enterprise — Published base of US$20/seat/month billed annually, plus usage at API rates; sales-assisted terms are also available.

Claude Code is included in every paid plan and uses its applicable plan entitlement. Optional extra API credits are separate; a Console account is not mandatory just to use included Code. Enterprise's base-plus-usage structure still applies. Taxes, limits and regional terms should be checked before purchase.

Sources: pricing and Projects eligibility.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Long-form writing — Draft, revise, summarize, and preserve a requested voice across substantial documents.
• Document review — Analyze contracts, reports, spreadsheets, PDFs, and images and answer questions about their contents.
• Research briefs — Search current sources, connect relevant tools, and produce a cited synthesis.
• Software development — Explain code, debug errors, review changes, and prototype working code or interfaces.
• Data analysis — Inspect datasets, calculate statistics, identify patterns, and create visualizations.
• Learning and tutoring — Break down difficult concepts and build visual or interactive study aids.
• Internal knowledge work — Use Projects and connected sources to organize team or personal reference material.
• Interactive prototypes — Describe a tool, diagram, website, or mini-app and iterate on the resulting Artifact.