Claude

by Anthropic · updated 2026-07-09

The strongest long-context writing and code-review partner, with an artifacts workspace.

4.6 · 7,420 ratingsFreemium$0 / $20 per userAPI available

At a glance

Best for: Writers, Engineers, Legal and policy teams, Researchers
Platforms: Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android
Languages: English, Hindi, Spanish, German
Starting price: $0 / $20 per user

Visit Claude

Key takeaways

Best-in-class prose and tone control
Handles book-length inputs reliably
No native image generation
Starts at $0 / $20 per user.

Overview

Claude is Anthropic's assistant family, known for careful long-form prose, very large context windows and Artifacts — a side-by-side canvas where generated documents, code and mini-apps render live while you iterate on them.

Features

Very large context for whole repositories or contracts
Artifacts canvas for live documents and prototypes
Model Context Protocol connectors to internal systems
Projects with persistent knowledge
Agentic coding in the terminal

Pros and cons

Pros

Best-in-class prose and tone control
Handles book-length inputs reliably
Transparent refusals and safety behaviour

Cons

No native image generation
Smaller plugin ecosystem
Tight message caps during peak hours

Pricing plans

Free

forever

Daily message allowance
Core model
Artifacts

Pro

$20

per month

5x usage
Projects
Priority access

Team

$30

per user / month

Shared projects
Central billing
Admin controls

Industry use cases

Industry use cases for Claude
Industry	Scenario
Legal	Summarise a 200-page contract set and flag deviations from a playbook.
Software	Review a pull request against architecture guidelines before merge.
Publishing	Edit long-form drafts while preserving an established house style.

Security, privacy and compliance

SOC 2 Type 2
GDPR
HIPAA (on request)

Integrations: Google Drive, GitHub, Slack, MCP servers. A public API is available.

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Claude FAQ

How large a document can Claude read?

Paid plans handle inputs in the hundreds of thousands of tokens — roughly a 500-page document or a mid-sized codebase in a single conversation.

Can Claude generate images?

No. Claude reads and analyses images but does not generate them; pair it with Midjourney or a comparable image model.