AI agent workspace ('Super Agent') for research, slides, sheets, calls and content generation.
Claude
AI Chat & General AssistantsClaude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on web, desktop and mobile. It is known for long-context document work, writing quality and coding, with Projects, Artifacts, memory, web search, a Research mode and connectors to work apps. Anthropic also offers Claude Code for developers and Cowork for agentic desktop tasks.
Pricing
Claude pricing
Free plan: yes; Pro $20/mo ($17/mo annual), Max from $100/mo
Last checked September 2026 · Confirm on claude.ai
Features
What Claude does
- Very large context window for long documents and codebases
- Artifacts side panel for documents, code, diagrams and interactive apps
- Projects with shared files and instructions
- Research mode and web search with citations
- Code execution and file creation (spreadsheets, documents, slides)
- Claude Code and Cowork for agentic coding and desktop tasks
Pros
- Strong at long-document analysis and structured writing
- Widely used for coding via Claude Code
- Artifacts make it easy to iterate on documents and small apps
- Connectors (MCP) link to many work tools
Cons
- No native image generation
- Free plan has tight usage limits
- Heavy users on paid plans still run into usage caps
- No equivalent to a public store of custom assistants like GPTs
Fit
Who Claude is for
Look elsewhere if: Anyone who needs built-in image or video generation should look at ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok.
For teams & enterprise
Enterprise readiness
Claude Team and Enterprise plans; Enterprise adds SCIM, audit logs, Compliance API, custom retention and customer-managed keys.
- Business / enterprise plan
- Yes
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Enterprise plan
- SCIM user provisioning
- Enterprise plan
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- Yes
- HIPAA (BAA available)
- Enterprise (BAA)
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Data residency options
- US-only inference option
- No training on your data
- Yes
- Audit logs
- Enterprise plan
- Admin controls
- Yes
- Deployment
- Cloud
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| Chat Assistants feature checklist | |
|---|---|
| Web search with sources | Yes |
| Image generation | No |
| Voice conversations | Yes |
| File & PDF analysis | Yes |
| Custom assistants / GPTs | Limited |
| Runs code / data analysis | Yes |
| Deep research mode | Yes |
| Mobile apps | Yes |
| Developer API | Yes |
Claude compared
- Claude vs ChatGPT
- Claude vs Google Gemini
- Claude vs Genspark
- Claude vs Microsoft Copilot
- Claude vs DeepSeek
- Claude vs Grok
- Claude vs Manus
- Claude vs Meta AI
- Claude vs Mistral Le Chat
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