Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant with the Claude family of models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), Projects, and Computer Use.
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant with the Claude family of models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), Projects, and Computer Use. Offers the Claude model family with distinct tiers including Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku.
What it does well
- Offers the Claude model family with distinct tiers including Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku.
- Supports Anthropic's Computer Use capability for controlling browsers and desktop interfaces.
- Available as native apps on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android in addition to the web.
- Includes a Projects workspace feature for organizing conversations, documents, and shared context.
Where it falls short
- Free tier imposes message and usage limits that are lower than paid subscription plans.
- Only supports Anthropic's own Claude models, with no BYOK or third-party model support.
- Computer Use capability is gated to specific paid tiers and remains in beta.
Tagged
- Supports Claude
- CLI
- Web-based
- MCP Support
- Agentic Mode
- Free
- Freemium
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Concepts you should know
- Chain of thought
Asking an LLM to spell out intermediate reasoning steps before producing the final answer. Improves accuracy on multi-step problems by ~10-30 percentage points on most reasoning benchmarks.
- Citation
When a generative-search system attributes part of its answer to a specific source URL, usually with a footnote-style number or an inline link. The visible signal that a brand was used to ground a model's answer.
- Reasoning token
Tokens spent by a reasoning model (o-series, DeepSeek R1, Claude with extended thinking) on hidden chain-of-thought before the visible answer. Billed separately at the same rate as output tokens. Can be 10-100× the visible-answer length on hard problems.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Claude?
- Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant with the Claude family of models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), Projects, and Computer Use.
- Is Claude free?
- Claude offers a free tier and paid plans with higher limits or premium features.
- What platforms does Claude support?
- Claude runs on web, mac, win, ios, android.
- What category does Claude belong to?
- Claude is in the AI Chatbots & Assistants category — Custom GPTs, Claude apps, niche assistants — chat interfaces aimed at a specific user, topic, or workflow.
- What are the downsides of Claude?
- Free tier imposes message and usage limits that are lower than paid subscription plans. Only supports Anthropic's own Claude models, with no BYOK or third-party model support. Computer Use capability is gated to specific paid tiers and remains in beta.