Claude
Anthropic’s AI assistant built for thoughtful writing, coding, analysis, and agentic work — led by the Claude Opus 4.x family.
What is Claude?
Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant, known for nuanced writing, strong reasoning, and long-context understanding with a careful, safety-focused approach. In 2026 it powers everything from everyday chat to autonomous coding and knowledge-work agents — and is a favourite for tasks where quality and judgement matter.
Latest in 2026
Anthropic’s most capable model to date, with the Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku tiers covering deep reasoning, balanced everyday use, and fast lightweight tasks.
An agentic coding tool that takes on real development tasks from the terminal, desktop, or mobile — refactoring, fixing bugs, and shipping features.
Claude Cowork brings agentic knowledge work to non-developers, alongside Claude in Chrome, Excel, and PowerPoint for browser and document tasks.
Claude can reference past conversations and work across very large documents and codebases, keeping context that earlier assistants would lose.
Key Features
Pricing Tiers (2026)
Pricing changes often — check claude.ai for current rates.
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