Claude is the chatbot subscription from Anthropic. Anthropic's AI assistant focused on helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness, with strong long-document and coding capabilities. Recorded prices for Claude run from $20 to $200, depending on the plan and billing cycle. This page is a buying brief: it restates the plan names, prices, included access, and fit notes Deepapi has checked, and it links to the broader subscription index and the Claude product page when you need a second view of the same vendor.
Claude has 5 recorded plans: Claude Pro (monthly, $20), includes More usage than Free every 5 hours and every week; Claude Code, Projects, and Research; Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku; Monthly price is $20; annual is a separate $200 upfront plan; No monthly API credits, listed for Professionals, Writers, a weaker fit for Teams needing admin. Claude Max (monthly, $100), includes 5x Pro usage every 5 hours and every week; $100/mo in Claude Platform API credits; Priority access at high traffic; Single user only, listed for Power users, Heavy Claude users, a weaker fit for Casual users. Claude Ultra (monthly, $200), includes 10x Pro usage every week; No 5-hour limit for verified accounts; $200/mo in Claude Platform API credits; Single user only, listed for Researchers, Agencies, a weaker fit for Budget-conscious users. Claude Pro Annual (annual, $200), includes Same as Pro monthly; $17/mo effective; $200 billed up front; Billed annually; Single user only, listed for Committed professionals, a weaker fit for Month-to-month flexibility. Claude Free (free, an unlisted amount), includes Chat on web, desktop, and mobile; Sonnet access; Artifacts, web search, and file creation; Up to 5 projects; Limited usage every 5 hours and every week; No Claude Code; No Opus, listed for Casual users, Document summaries, a weaker fit for High-volume workflows.
What stands out for Claude: Top-tier long-form writing quality and tone consistency across long documents Very large context window (up to 500K+ tokens) for book-length document analysis Strong coding and reasoning performance, especially for multi-step refactoring Anthropic does not use consumer conversations for model training by default
Limits and trade-offs recorded for Claude: No native image generation; relies on external tools for visual content Voice and audio capabilities are more limited than ChatGPT Smaller third-party app ecosystem and no GPT-style custom bot marketplace Claude Opus API is among the most expensive frontier APIs per token
How to choose a Claude tier: match the billing cycle to how long you will keep the seat, then match included models or credits to a normal week rather than a launch week. Monthly plans are easier to leave if the limit is tight. Annual plans usually lower the monthly equivalent and are a poor fit if you are still testing whether Anthropic's workflow replaces a tool you already pay for. If two tiers list the same features, prefer the cheaper one and move up only after you hit a named limit.