Claude
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveAssistant focused on long documents and code work
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $17/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Pro is $17/month billed annually ($200 upfront) or $20 month to month. Max starts at $100/month for 5x usage (20x tier above) and now includes $100–$200 a month of API credits. Team is $20/seat/month annually or $25 monthly (premium seat $100/$125) for up to 150 people; Enterprise is $20/seat annually with a 20-seat minimum plus usage at API rates. API usage is billed separately per token.
Use tool ↗About Claude
Claude handles long-context conversation, document analysis and programming tasks, and can run tools, search the web and execute code in a sandbox. The same models are available through an API and desktop apps that connect to local data via MCP.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Free $0; Pro $17/month with annual billing ($200 upfront) or $20 monthly; Max from $100/month with 5x or 20x usage and $100–$200/month API credits; Team $20/$25 per seat, premium seat $100/$125; Enterprise $20/seat annually, 20-seat minimum, usage at API rates (15 October 2026)claude.com ↗
- Free plan includes chat on web, desktop and mobile, web search, file creation and code execution, memory, connectors and Artifacts (15 October 2026)claude.com ↗
Is Claude legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Aug 4, 2018 (8 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar MarkMonitor Inc., looked up Sep 11, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 9, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered, but turned our crawler away
- On the market since
- 2023The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Anthropic, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Claude
The one to pick if your work is long documents or code; for casual chat the free tier is fine and the paid seat mostly buys headroom rather than new abilities.
Pros
- Long-context handling is the reason most people switch to it
- Same models reachable from chat, desktop app and API
- Free tier is a usable product rather than a token trial
- Annual billing brings the Pro seat down to $17/mo
Cons
- Pro usage limits bite during sustained coding work
- The step above Pro is $100/mo Max, a five-fold jump
- No image generation, unlike most rivals at the same price
- claude.ai blocks automated access, so scripted use has to go via the API
Best for
- Developers working through large codebases or using Claude Code
- Anyone reading and reasoning over long documents, contracts or papers
- Users who want a desktop app that reaches local data through MCP
Not for
- Image generation, which it does not do
- Teams optimising purely for the cheapest per-token API price
Watch out: Pro's usage limits are the real constraint — heavy Claude Code sessions tend to hit them, and the next tier up is $100/mo Max.
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