Claude

Anthropic's AI assistant for research, writing, code, files, and connected tasks, with free and paid plans.

Bring project context into a conversation, create an artifact or document, and refine it with follow-up instructions.

Access and pricing: Free usage is limited. Pro is $20/month or $200/year; Max starts at $100/month. Model, context, and task limits vary by plan.

Try this task: Refine a policy-based reply Supply a fictional policy: unused items may be returned within 14 days. Ask for a reply to a customer requesting a return at day 20.

Check the result: Pass if the reply identifies the policy gap and requests a human decision instead of granting an unsupported exception.

Choose carefully: A polished reply still needs a policy check; fluent wording does not establish entitlement.

Evidence: This is an editorial exercise based on the documented product scope, not a recorded hands-on product benchmark. Use permitted or fictional inputs and record your own observed result.

What it does well

The official pricing page lists chat on web, iOS, Android and desktop on every plan. Its Free plan features include searching the web, creating files and running code, memory across conversations, connecting apps and tools, creating Artifacts, and Claude Design, Slides and Docs.

Who gets the most from it

People who work with long documents or code and want to refine drafts through follow-up instructions, and teams that need shared seats. Team plans cover 2 to 150 users, and Enterprise starts with a 20-seat minimum.

Limits to check before you commit

Free is $0, Pro is $17/month billed annually ($200 up front) or $20 billed monthly, and Max starts at $100/month with 5x or 20x more usage than Pro. Pro includes Claude Code. Team is $20 per seat per month annually ($25 monthly) for Standard seats and $100 annually ($125 monthly) for Premium seats. The page does not give exact Free usage allowances, so expect limits and check them in your account.

Claude Cowork and Claude Duet (checked 29 October 2026)

Cowork is not a free feature: Anthropic's help centre says it is available to paid Claude plans (Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise) only. It is also not new. The release notes show a research preview for Max on macOS on 12 January 2026, general availability on macOS and Windows on 9 April, web and mobile on 7 July, and a merge into everyday Claude on 16 September ("Claude Cowork is now just Claude"), with the unified experience reaching Claude Enterprise on 23 October. Agentic tasks use your usage allowance faster than regular chat. Claude Duet, a proactive agent app, opened as a research preview on 21 October 2026 by waitlist for Pro and Max subscribers in the US only; it is included at no extra cost during the preview, shares your plan's usage limits and is not available on Free, Team or Enterprise. See our free AI plan changes page for the dates and sources.