Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant for chat, coding, and research, offering a free tier plus Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans and a usage-based API.
Claude is the AI assistant product built by Anthropic, an AI safety and research company founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei and headquartered in San Francisco. Claude is available as a free consumer chat app on web and mobile, as desktop apps, and as a usage-based API for developers building their own products.
Anthropic offers Claude in multiple model families spanning different speed, cost, and capability levels, used both inside Anthropic's own apps (including the agentic coding tool Claude Code) and by third-party developers accessing the models directly or through cloud partners like Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI.
Claude's consumer apps support conversational chat, code generation, content creation, web search, persistent memory across conversations, and file creation, with paid tiers unlocking higher usage limits and additional tools.
Claude Code extends Claude into agentic software development, letting it read and edit files, run commands, and carry out multi-step coding tasks from a terminal or IDE rather than answering isolated prompts.
For organizations, Team and Enterprise plans add centralized billing, admin controls, SSO and SCIM provisioning, audit logs, configurable data retention, and compliance features aimed at regulated industries.
Claude offers a free tier with usage limits, a Pro plan at $17/month billed annually ($20/month billed monthly) with higher limits and access to Claude Code, and a Max plan starting at $100/month for substantially higher usage caps and priority access.
Team plans run $20-25/month per standard seat or $100-125/month per premium seat for organizations of roughly 2-150 people, while Enterprise pricing is custom-quoted based on seat count and API usage. Developers can also access Claude models directly through Anthropic's API on a pay-per-token basis.
Yes, Anthropic offers a free tier of Claude with usage limits for chat, code generation, content creation, and web search on web and mobile.
Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lets Claude read, edit, and run code across a project from a terminal or IDE, included with Pro and higher plans.
Claude Pro is $17/month when billed annually, or $20/month when billed monthly, and includes higher usage limits and access to Claude Code.
Yes, Anthropic offers Team plans for groups of roughly 2-150 people and custom-quoted Enterprise plans with SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and compliance features for larger organizations.
Anthropic was founded in January 2021 by Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, along with several other former OpenAI researchers, and is headquartered in San Francisco.
Yes, Claude models are available through Anthropic's own API on a usage-based, pay-per-token basis, and are also accessible through Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI.