Overview
Coding, analysis, writing assistant
Anthropic’s assistant for long-context writing, coding, analysis, and reasoning across web and API.
Best for: Long document analysis; agentic coding (Claude Code); complex writing; research; safety-sensitive tasks
At a glance
Pricing
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Time to productivity
- 5 min
- Privacy
- High
- Learning curve
- Instant
Ideal for
Key capabilities
Works with
- Text
- code
- documents
- spreadsheets
- presentations
Outputs
- Text
- Markdown
- HTML
- React
- XLSX
- PPTX
- DOCX
- SVG
- code files
Mobile access
How to use Claude on phones and tablets.
- Mobile web: Works in a mobile browser (responsive or dedicated mobile site).
Free Tier
Free tier with usage limits; Pro for higher limits
Limits: ~20-30 msgs/day free (varies by demand); 200K context free vs 1M on Max; no Claude Code on free
When to upgrade: Daily message limits; needing Opus 4.6 for complex tasks; Claude Code; 1M context; MCP integrations
Technical Details
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