Claude
by Anthropic
At a glance
AI assistant from Anthropic designed for helpful, harmless, and honest dialogue, with the Claude Fable and Mythos 5.1 model family for long-document reasoning and coding.
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- Licence
- Not recorded
- Category
- AI Assistants
- Business model
- Freemium
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2023-03
Overview
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant in the ai-assistants category, designed for careful dialogue and strong reasoning over long documents and code, and used for writing, coding, summarising contracts and code review. It is run by Anthropic, a US company founded in 2021, and reached on the web, in mobile and desktop apps, and through an API. The checkable recent change is model lineage: in September 2026 Anthropic introduced Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 as its current flagship models, succeeding the Opus 4.1 line. Its honest limitation is documentation rather than capability: the vendor pages read in this review stated no licence, regions or interface languages.
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Key features
- Long context windows for analyzing books, reports, and codebases
- Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 for writing, coding, and structured reasoning
- File and image understanding in chat
- Projects, artifacts, and agentic coding workflows
Use cases
- Summarizing and questioning long documents and contracts
- Software development assistance and code review
- Careful drafting where tone and accuracy matter
Pricing
A free tier is available; Claude Pro, Team, and Enterprise plans add higher usage limits and access to newer models such as Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1.
Record details
Provenance, dates and links are kept here so the main sections stay about the product itself.
Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
- Pricing
- claude.com ↗
- Documentation
- platform.claude.com ↗
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- US
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/claude/
Selection profile
Every field says where its value comes from. "Unknown" means we have not confirmed it — it does not mean the product lacks the feature.
Selection profile11 fields3 unknown
- Tasks it fits
- Drafting and editing text
Derived from the record: category "ai-assistants".
Suggest a correction - How you use it
- Web app
Hosted product with no desktop/CLI tag in the record; assumed web-delivered.
Suggest a correction - Runs on
- Windows Web
Derived from platform words in the record description/features/tags.
Suggest a correction - Where it runs
- Vendor cloud
Vendor-hosted product; no self-hosted option is recorded.
Suggest a correction - Works offline
- Not recorded
The record contains no offline-operation claim.
Suggest a correction - Official service region
- Global
Mirrors the availability field already on the record ("global").
Suggest a correction - Public API
- Yes
platform.claude.com/docs is Claude's own platform documentation, but the text that matched was its navigation bar ("Models & pricing, SDKs, CLI, and libraries, Claude API, Release notes, API reference"), not a statement about this product. Demoted on 2026-10-09 under the navigation-chrome rule; re-promote only with a body-text quote. See docs/ledger.md §T05.
Suggest a correction - Licence
- proprietary
Commercial product; no source licence is published in the record.
Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Not recorded
Commercial product; the terms reviewed here do not state a non-commercial restriction, but that was not verified.
Suggest a correction - Interface languages
- Not recorded
No vendor page read in this pass states the product's own interface languages; the key exists so the field can be answered later rather than left absent.
Suggest a correction - Billing
- Free Subscription USD 17/month Free allowance: Yes Subscription required: No
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- Runs on
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- Where it runs
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- Works offline
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- Official service region
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- Public API
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- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
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- Interface languages
- Unknown
Key facts and their evidence
Each fact lists the conditions it holds under, the page it was read from and the day it was checked.
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Pricing: 17 USD/month Verified 2026-10-10 claude.com ↗
Applies to: Pro plan billed annually; $20 billed monthly
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Pricing: 100 USD/month Verified 2026-10-10 claude.com ↗
Applies to: Max plan at the lower of the two tiers; the higher tier is $200/month and adds more usage
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Pricing: 20 USD/seat/month Verified 2026-10-10 claude.com ↗
Applies to: Team standard seat, billed annually; $25 billed monthly. A premium seat with 5x usage is $100/seat annually, $125 monthly
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Pricing: Enterprise: $20 per seat per month billed annually, plus usage billed at API rates Verified 2026-10-10 claude.com ↗
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Frequently asked questions
Is Claude free to use?
Yes. Claude offers a free tier; paid plans such as Claude Pro add higher usage limits and access to newer models.
Who develops Claude?
Claude is developed by Anthropic, a US-based AI company founded in 2021.
What are Claude Fable and Mythos 5.1?
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are Anthropic's September 2026 flagship models, succeeding the Opus 4.1 generation for chat, coding, and long-context work.
Who should not choose Claude?
Anyone who needs a self-hosted or offline assistant, or a licence and interface languages stated up front: the record documents cloud delivery only, and the vendor pages read stated no licence or language support.
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Related guides
Sources
- Official website ↗
- Introducing Claude Fable and Mythos 5.1 (Anthropic) ↗
- Documentation - Claude Platform Docs ↗
- Official pricing ↗
This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.
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