Claude

What is Claude?

Claude is a high-performance, safe and reliable AI intelligent assistant launched by Anthropic. With safety, accuracy and controllability as its core positioning, Claude provides a complete AI workflow from daily chatting to professional programming. The product covers web, mobile and desktop, and its core functions include Artifacts visual creation, Cowork local file collaboration, Research in-depth research and cross-conversation memory. The platform adopts the three-level model architecture of Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Claude Haiku 4.5. You can experience basic capabilities with the free version. Claude has multi-modal features, can process image and audio content, is designed to follow the "constitutional artificial intelligence" philosophy, and focuses on ethics and security. It is one of ChatGPT's most powerful competitors.

Claude's main functions

• Artifacts Visual Creation: Generate and iterate websites, graphics, documents, and code directly in chat, with real-time preview and editing.
• Cowork desktop collaboration: connect local files and cloud applications, independently complete folder organization, table construction and report generation, and users can approve every step.
• Claude Code Programming Agent: Performs code base analysis, cross-file refactoring, bug fixing, and test running via terminal or IDE integration.
• Research In-depth research: Perform multi-step web searches and information integration on complex topics, and output research reports with cited sources.
• Cross-conversation memory: Automatically save key information and user preferences to maintain contextual coherence and personalized responses in subsequent conversations.
• Extended thinking mode: Enable deep thinking chains for complex mathematics, logic and reasoning tasks to improve the accuracy of solving difficult problems.
• Connectors and MCP integration: Extend workflow automation by connecting to Slack, Google Workspace, and any third-party tools via the remote MCP protocol.
• Desktop extension: supports Excel, Chrome, Word, and PowerPoint plug-ins, and directly calls Claude capabilities in commonly used office software.

How to use Claude

• Web chat: Visit claude’s official website https://claude.ai/, select the Free/Pro/Max plan, enter questions directly in the browser or upload files to start a conversation.
• Mobile application: Download Claude App, which supports voice input, application connection and mobile task initiation.
• Office plug-in integration: Install the Claude extension in Excel, Word, PowerPoint or Chrome to call AI-assisted writing and data analysis directly in documents and web pages.
• APIs and Enterprise Deployments: Integrate Claude into your own systems via the Anthropic API or AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry.

Claude’s core strengths

• A safe and controllable industry benchmark: The Constitutional AI training framework enables Claude to excel in identifying and rejecting harmful content, making it suitable for enterprise scenarios with strict compliance requirements.
• Agentic workflow is complete: from Claude Code (programming) to Cowork (office) to desktop extensions, forming a full-scenario autonomous agent matrix covering development to daily office work.
• Artifacts Real-time creation: Generate interactive, editable websites, diagrams, and documents directly in the conversation flow, and iterate on visual content without switching tools.
• Research In-depth research: Perform multiple rounds of searches and information integration on complex topics, output structured research reports and mark sources, suitable for academic and business research.
• Seamless cross-platform integration: natively supports Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Chrome, Slack and Google Workspace, and directly calls AI capabilities within commonly used tools.

Claude’s comparison of similar competing products

Claude's product pricing

• Free plan: $0, supports web, iOS, Android and desktop chat, can generate code and visualize data, write and edit, analyze text and images, search the Internet, create files and execute code, supports desktop extensions, Slack and Google Workspace connections, remote MCP Connectors and extended thinking mode.
• Pro plan: $17/month (annual $200 upfront) or $20/month for daily productivity, adds more usage to Free, Claude Code terminal programming, Claude Cowork desktop collaboration, unlimited projects, Claude for PowerPoint (beta), Research in-depth research, more Claude model selections, and Claude for Excel (beta).
• Max 5x plan: $100/month/person, suitable for users who frequently use Claude to handle multiple tasks. The usage per session is 5 times that of Pro. It includes all Pro features and higher output limits, early access to advanced features, and priority access during peak periods.
• Max 20x plan: $200/month/person, suitable for users who collaborate deeply with Claude on most tasks every day. The usage per session is 20 times that of Pro. It also includes all Pro features and higher output limits, early experience of advanced features, and priority access during peak periods.
• Team Standard Seat: $20/seat/month (paid annually), $25/month, for teams of 5–150 people, includes chat, projects, Claude Code, Connectors, centralized administrator console and unified billing management.
• Team Premium seats: $100/seat/month (annual payment), monthly payment is $125, more usage quota is added to Standard, and teams can mix and match Standard and Premium seats as needed.

Claude’s application scenarios

• Content creation: Claude can help bloggers, self-media people or companies quickly generate article drafts, title ideas, social media copywriting, stories, poems, etc.
• Intelligent customer service: Claude's long context capabilities and conversational coherence are very suitable for building intelligent customer service systems. It can handle multiple rounds of user conversations, answer questions and provide personalized suggestions while avoiding inappropriate content.
• Educational assistance: Claude can be used as a learning assistant to help students answer questions, generate study notes, provide writing guidance, or tutor English speaking.
• Code assistance: Claude helps developers write simple scripts, comment code, or debug issues.