Claude
by Anthropic •General AI Assistants
Anthropic's AI assistant for reasoning, writing, coding, long documents and agentic knowledge work.
What is Claude?
AI Orbit decision brief
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Recorded strengths
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Features & use cases
Core capabilities listed for Claude.
Deep Research
Performs multi-source research, synthesis and evidence-oriented investigation.
Text Generation
Generates original text from natural-language instructions or structured prompts.
Reasoning
Supports multi-step reasoning, planning, analysis and problem solving.
Web Browsing & Search
Retrieves and synthesizes information from live or indexed web sources.
Document & PDF Analysis
Reads, extracts, summarizes and answers questions over uploaded documents and PDFs.
Image Understanding
Interprets images, screenshots, diagrams and other visual inputs.
Code Generation
Generates source code, functions, components or complete implementations.
Multimodal
Works across multiple modalities such as text, image, audio or video.
Access, deployment & licensing
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Privacy, security & compliance
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Pricing overview
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Free
Review · verified 2 weeks ago
- Free consumer access with usage limits.
Enterprise
Stale · verified 1 month ago
- $20/seat/month plus usage billed at API rates
- billed annually.
Pro
Review · verified 2 weeks ago
- US price
- Claude API usage is billed separately.
Team Standard
USD 240.00 billed yearly
Review · verified 2 weeks ago
- $25/member/month monthly or $20/member/month equivalent annually
- minimum two members.
Max 5x
Stale · verified 1 month ago
- 5x Pro usage tier.
Team Premium
USD 1,200.00 billed yearly
Review · verified 2 weeks ago
- $125/member/month monthly or $100/member/month equivalent annually
- minimum two members.
Max 20x
Stale · verified 1 month ago
- 20x Pro usage tier.
Verified benchmarks & scores
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DeepResearch Bench — RACE Overall
Claude side-by-side comparisons
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Research related to Claude
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Claude FAQ
Quick answers based on the information currently available in this AI Orbit profile.
What is Claude?
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding and long-form knowledge work across web, desktop and mobile experiences. Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans provide progressively higher usage and organizational controls, while Claude Platform provides API access separately. Claude is provided by Anthropic and AI Orbit categorizes it under Chat & Assistants. Its structured capability profile includes Deep Research, Text Generation, Reasoning and Web Browsing & Search; field-level verification may still be pending for some capability mappings.
Who makes Claude?
Claude is provided by Anthropic. AI safety and research company developing the Claude family of large language models and enterprise AI systems. Within AI Orbit, the product is cataloged in Chat & Assistants, which describes its primary product category rather than the provider itself.
What is Claude best for?
AI Orbit currently maps Claude to structured use cases including General AI Assistance and Question Answering. These are reviewed taxonomy mappings used for discovery and fit; field-level evidence may still be pending, so they are not presented as independently verified claims. Supporting cataloged capabilities include Deep Research, Text Generation, Reasoning and Web Browsing & Search.
Does Claude have an API?
Yes. AI Orbit has verified official evidence that Claude provides API access. The profile also records official API documentation, so developers can check supported endpoints, authentication and current implementation details at the provider source. API availability can change independently from the consumer product, so production implementations should still be checked against the provider documentation.
How does Claude handle privacy and security?
Anthropic provides consumer data controls and enterprise-grade privacy options. Enterprise deployments include stronger data-governance and retention controls, and approved platform customers can use zero-data-retention configurations. AI Orbit records the data-training policy as: Depends on plan / workspace settings. Claude Team and Enterprise support SSO and centralized controls; Anthropic documents enterprise audit logging, role-based permissions and security/compliance APIs. These statements reflect the verified provider evidence stored by AI Orbit; policies and certifications can change, so sensitive deployments should re-check the current official documentation.
How much does Claude cost?
AI Orbit currently has verified plan-level pricing data for Claude, including Free, Enterprise, Pro and Team Standard. Exact rates, billing units, limits and verification dates are shown in the pricing section of this profile rather than compressed into a single potentially misleading price. Because providers can change prices and plan limits, check the linked official pricing source before making a purchase or production decision.