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2026-07-07

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Claude

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Claude

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Starting price

$0

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Monthly

Type

Freemium

Official pricing

Overview

Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant designed to help individuals and teams with writing, research, analysis, coding, problem solving, and complex knowledge work. It combines conversational AI with advanced reasoning, long-context understanding, file analysis, web and app integrations, and content creation tools, allowing users to move from questions and ideas to finished work within a single environment. Claude is available across web, desktop, and mobile, making it especially useful for professionals, developers, researchers, students, and organizations that want an AI assistant for both everyday tasks and more demanding workflows.

Beyond answering questions and generating text, Claude can create and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs, analyze files and data, generate charts and visualizations, search and build on previous conversations, and use memory to retain useful context over time. Claude Code extends these capabilities to software development, while Claude Cowork supports more autonomous, multi-step work involving files, tools, scheduled tasks, and computer use. Integrations with services such as Microsoft 365 and other connectors also allow Claude to work with external applications and business data, making it suitable for workflows ranging from research and content creation to coding, data analysis, and workplace automation.

Anthropic offers Claude through Free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with higher tiers providing greater usage limits and access to more advanced models and capabilities. Team and Enterprise plans add organizational features such as centralized administration, role-based access controls, connector management, analytics, security and compliance tools, and enterprise deployment options. Overall, Claude is a comprehensive AI productivity and knowledge-work platform that combines conversational assistance, advanced reasoning, coding, document creation, integrations, and agentic workflows in a single ecosystem.

Releases

2026
August

2026-08 Skill and plugin security scanning · 2026-08-06

Enterprise plans can now turn on skill and plugin security scanning to automatically check third-party skills and plugins for malicious content when someone uploads or edits them. For more information, see Get started with skill and plugin scanning.

Official release notes
July

2026-07 Claude Opus 5 launch · 2026-07-24

We launched Claude Opus 5, a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. For more information, see our blog post: Claude Opus 5.

Official release notes

2026-07 HIPAA configuration for your Claude organizations is now self-serve · 2026-07-14

You can now manage HIPAA readiness for your Claude organizations yourself. This applies to both Claude Enterprise and the Claude Platform (API). In each product, an eligible admin can review the Business Associate Agreement (BAA), download the implementation guide, and enable the HIPAA configuration in a single flow. For more information, refer to HIPAA-ready Enterprise plans and HIPAA readiness for Claude API.

Official release notes

2026-07 memory for Claude · 2026-07-10

Memory on Claude now works as a set of individual, categorized entries that Claude reads and updates during your conversations, replacing the previous daily memory summary. See Use Claude’s chat search and memory to build on previous context.

Official release notes

2026-07 reflect with Claude · 2026-07-09

Your monthly recap is a new feature at Settings > Reflect that shows you the topics you spent time on, your most active day and peak hour, and observations about how you work with Claude. It's in beta on Free, Pro, and Max plans on the web and Claude Desktop, and requires memory to be on. Alongside it, Settings > Time and focus lets you set optional break reminders and quiet hours. For more information, refer to See your monthly recap and Set break reminders and quiet hours.

Official release notes

2026-07 Claude Cowork on web and mobile · 2026-07-07

Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile in addition to desktop. We are rolling this capability out over the next several weeks starting with the Max plan, with more plans to follow. Cowork runs your sessions remotely (in beta), so your sessions and files are saved to your Claude account and go where you go, on any device. Work continues when you close your laptop, and scheduled tasks run with no device online. Chat and Cowork also share one home now, with one place for your projects and artifacts across both. For more information, see Use Claude Cowork on web, desktop, and mobile.

Official release notes

2026-07 Write tools for the Microsoft 365 connector · 2026-07-07

The Microsoft 365 connector now goes beyond search. With write tools enabled, Claude can draft, send, and organize email, manage calendar events, update mailbox settings, and create and update files in OneDrive and SharePoint. Read and search tools work as before, and Teams remains read-only. Before members can use write tools, a Microsoft Entra administrator needs to consent to the updated permission set and an admin needs to enable them for the organization. For more information, see Set up the Microsoft 365 connector and Connect to Microsoft 365.

Official release notes

2026-07 Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 restored · 2026-07-01

We are restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. See our statement for more information.

Official release notes

2026-07 Model entitlements for Enterprise plans · 2026-07-01

Admins on Enterprise plans can now control what models their users have access to, and what effort level settings they can use. For more information, see Manage model access for your organization.

Official release notes
June

2026-06 Claude Sonnet 5 launch · 2026-06-30

We launched Claude Sonnet 5, our most agentic Sonnet model yet, with substantial improvements over Sonnet 4.6 in reasoning, tool use, coding, and knowledge work. For more information, see our blog post: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.

Official release notes

2026-06 Trusted Devices for Remote Control · 2026-06-25

Admins for Team and Enterprise plans can now require members to verify their device before viewing or steering local Claude Code sessions remotely. For more information, see Trusted Devices.

Official release notes

2026-06 Claude in Slack with Claude Tag · 2026-06-23

Team and Enterprise plans can now tag Claude directly in Slack conversations and delegate tasks to it while they focus on other work. For more information, see our blog post: Introducing Claude Tag.

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2026-06 Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 suspended · 2026-06-12

We've suspended access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. We aim to return access as quickly as we can. See our statement for more information.

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2026-06 Claude’s drafts in place · 2026-06-12

When Claude writes a draft in chat or Claude Cowork (a report, a plan, a brief), it opens right beside your chat. Highlight the part you want changed, type the change, and Claude makes the edit right where you marked it. No switching apps, no re-describing paragraphs in chat. For more information, see Work with artifacts.

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2026-06 Claude Fable 5 launch · 2026-06-09

We launched Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. For more information, see our blog post: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5.

Official release notes

2026-06 Enterprise plans can manage admin permissions with custom roles · 2026-06-02

We extended the existing custom roles framework by adding admin permissions. Admin permissions give members access to specific administrative areas, like billing or privacy, without the need to make them Owners. For more information, see Manage custom roles on Enterprise plans.

Official release notes
May

2026-05 Claude Opus 4.8 launch · 2026-05-28

We’ve upgraded Claude Opus to a new version. Claude Opus 4.8 shows improvements over Opus 4.7 in coding, agentic skills, reasoning, and practical knowledge work tasks. For more information, see our blog post: Introducing Claude Opus 4.8.

Official release notes

2026-05 Enterprise plans can manage connector access with custom roles · 2026-05-28

We added connector permissions to extend the existing custom roles framework and allow administrators to control which connectors, and which individual tools on those connectors, are available to each custom role. For more information, see Manage custom roles on Enterprise plans.

Official release notes

2026-05 Claude now works with more security and compliance tools · 2026-05-21

We introduced Claude Compliance API integrations with notable security and compliance tools. Now IT and security teams can govern Claude across our platform and suite of products, the same way they govern other applications in their stack. Learn how to get started with Claude Compliance API integrations.

Official release notes
April

2026-04 Claude Design by Anthropic Labs · 2026-04-17

With Opus 4.7, we also launched Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create visual outputs like designs, prototypes, slides, and one-pagers. For more information, see Get started with Claude Design.

Official release notes

2026-04 Claude Opus 4.7 launch · 2026-04-16

Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 shows improvements in software engineering and complex, long-running coding tasks, as well as better vision, allowing it to see images in higher resolution. For more information, see our blog post: Introducing Claude Opus 4.7.

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2026-04 Claude Cowork generally available · 2026-04-09

Claude Cowork is now generally available on macOS and Windows through the Claude Desktop app. With this, we’re expanding Claude Cowork with new capabilities:

Official release notes

2026-04 Role-based access controls for Enterprise plans · 2026-04-09

Admins can now organize users into groups, manually or via SCIM from your identity provider, and assign each group a custom role defining which Claude capabilities its members can use. Turn Claude Cowork on for specific teams, restrict features by department and adjust as adoption grows. Learn more about setting up role-based permissions, managing group spend limits, and managing custom roles.

Official release notes
March

2026-03 Interactive apps in Claude for iOS and Android · 2026-03-25

The Claude mobile app can now connect to fully interactive apps. Pull up live charts, sketch diagrams, and build shareable assets, all rendered visually right in your conversation. For more information, see Use interactive connectors in Claude.

Official release notes

2026-03 Computer use research preview in Cowork and Claude Code + Dispatch improvements · 2026-03-23

Users on Pro and Max plans can give Claude access to computer use. Claude can open files, run dev tools, point, click, and navigate to what’s on your screen to perform tasks itself—with no setup required. Claude’s new computer use capability makes Dispatch even more helpful by allowing it to use your computer on your behalf while you’re away. For more information, see Let Claude use your computer in Cowork or our blog post: Put Claude to work on your computer.

Official release notes

2026-03 Cowork from your phone with a persistent thread · 2026-03-17

Users on Pro and Max plans can access a persistent agent thread via Claude Desktop or Claude for iOS/Android to manage tasks in Cowork. We're rolling this out to Max plans starting today, and Pro plans over the next two days. For more information, see Assign tasks to Claude from anywhere in Cowork.

Official release notes

2026-03 Claude creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations · 2026-03-12

Claude can now create custom charts, diagrams and other visualizations in-line in its responses. For more information, see Custom visuals in chat.

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2026-03 Excel and PowerPoint · 2026-03-11

We’ve improved our Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint add-ins. They can now share the full context of your conversation, so every action Claude takes in one application is informed by everything that’s happened in the other. We also added support for skills in the add-ins, and the ability for Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry users to connect to them via an LLM gateway. For more information, refer to the following articles:

Official release notes

2026-03 Memory for free users · 2026-03-02

Memory from chat history is now available for all Claude users, including free users. For more information, refer to the following articles:

Official release notes
February

2026-02 Scheduled tasks in Cowork · 2026-02-25

We introduced the ability to create and schedule both recurring and on-demand tasks in Cowork, as well as a new Customize section in Claude Desktop that groups skills, plugins, and connectors in one place. For more information, see Schedule recurring tasks in Cowork.

Official release notes

2026-02 Cowork plugins and admin controls · 2026-02-24

We launched a new plugin marketplace and admin controls for Team and Enterprise plans. For more information, refer to these articles:

Official release notes

2026-02 Claude Sonnet 4.6 launch · 2026-02-17

We launched our most capable Sonnet model yet, with a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. Sonnet 4.6 also features a 1M token context window in beta. Read our blog post for more information: Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6.

Official release notes

2026-02 Analytics API for Enterprise plans · 2026-02-13

The Enterprise Analytics API provides programmatic access to usage and engagement data for Claude and Claude Code Remote usage within your organization. Data is aggregated per organization, per day, and each endpoint returns a snapshot for a single date that you specify. For more information, see Analytics APIs.

Official release notes

2026-02 Self-serve Enterprise plans · 2026-02-12

Previously, Enterprise plans were only available to customers working with our Sales team. Now, any organization can purchase an Enterprise plan directly on our website with no Sales conversation required. Self-serve Enterprise plans have a single seat type that includes access to Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork. For more information, refer to our blog post or What is the Enterprise plan?

Official release notes

2026-02 Claude Opus 4.6 launch · 2026-02-05

We’ve upgraded our smartest model and improved its coding skills. Read our blog post for more information: Introducing Claude Opus 4.6.

2026-02 Claude for PowerPoint · 2026-02-05

Claude is now available as an add-in for PowerPoint. Read more here: Use Claude for PowerPoint.

Official release notes

2026-02 Claude for Excel improvements · 2026-02-05

We’ve updated Claude for Excel so it uses Opus 4.6 and supports native Excel operations such as pivot table editing and conditional formatting. See our updated article for more information: Using Claude for Excel.

Official release notes
January

2026-01 Cowork research preview expanded to Pro plans · 2026-01-16

Cowork is now available to Pro plan users on Claude Desktop (macOS only).

2026-01 Claude Code access added to Team plan Standard seats · 2026-01-16

We’re now including Claude Code access with every Team plan standard seat. Refer to this article for more information: Purchasing and managing seats on Team plans.

Official release notes

2026-01 Opus 4 and 4.1 deprecated from Claude and Claude Code · 2026-01-16

We’ve removed Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 from the Claude model selector and Claude Code. Refer to this article for further details and recommendations: Adapting to new model personas after deprecations.

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2026-01 Cowork research preview on Claude Desktop (macOS only) for Max plans · 2026-01-12

Cowork brings Claude Code's agentic capabilities to the Claude desktop app for knowledge work beyond coding. It runs locally on your computer in an isolated VM, enabling direct access to local files and MCP integrations.

Official release notes

2026-01 Health and fitness data on Claude Mobile · 2026-01-12

Claude can now read and analyze your health and fitness data on iOS and Android. Ask Claude about your activity patterns, workout trends, sleep quality, and more—Claude will provide insights and visualizations using native charts.

Official release notes

2026-01 HIPAA-ready Enterprise plans · 2026-01-12

We now offer a HIPAA-ready version of Claude that is available for organizations with Enterprise plans that choose to process protected health information (PHI) through Claude.

Official release notes

2025
December

2025-12 Skills for organizations, partners, and the ecosystem · 2025-12-18

In October, we introduced skills—a way to teach Claude repeatable workflows tailored to how you work. Skills are now easier to deploy, discover, and build with organization-wide management for Team and Enterprise plans, a directory of partner-built skills, and an open standard (Agent Skills) so skills work across AI platforms.

Official release notes

2025-12 Claude in Chrome updates · 2025-12-18

Claude in Chrome is now available in beta to all paid plan subscribers, including Pro, Team, and Enterprise plans.

November

2025-11 Claude Opus 4.5 launch · 2025-11-24

We released our most powerful frontier model to date. Read our blog post for more information: Introducing Claude Opus 4.5.

Official release notes

2025-11 Claude for Excel beta release · 2025-11-24

Claude for Excel is now available in beta to all Max, Team, and Enterprise users. We’ve added some additional capabilities, such as support for pivot tables, charts and file uploads, plus a shortcut to quickly open the full Claude app from Excel (ctrl+option+c). We've also made overall improvements to performance, speed, context management, and the general user experience. See Use Claude for Excel.

Official release notes

2025-11 Context window compaction · 2025-11-24

We’ve changed our context window functionality to enable infinite-length conversations (with some exceptions) and significantly reduce length limit errors by summarizing earlier messages when a chat approaches its context limit. Read more here: Understanding Usage and Length Limits.

Official release notes

2025-11 Claude in Chrome updates · 2025-11-24

Claude in Chrome is now available in beta to all Max plan subscribers. After months of testing, we're expanding access with the following updates:

October

2025-10 Claude’s memory on Max and Pro plans · 2025-10-23

Max plan users can now access Claude’s memory capabilities. This feature will roll out to Pro plans gradually over the next two weeks.

2025-10 Claude Haiku 4.5 launch · 2025-10-15

We released our fastest, most cost-efficient model – Claude Haiku 4.5. Our latest small model matches Sonnet 4’s performance on coding, computer use, and agent tasks.

2025-10 Claude in Chrome updates · 2025-10-15

Powered by Haiku 4.5: Claude in Chrome now defaults to Haiku 4.5 so it’s a faster, more responsive experience. You can always switch back to Sonnet 4.5.

September

2025-09 Claude Sonnet 4.5 launch · 2025-09-29

We released our newest model, Sonnet 4.5. This is the best model in the world for real-world agents, coding, and computer use. Read our blog post here: Claude Sonnet 4.5.

Official release notes

2025-09 files with Claude for Pro plans and mobile · 2025-09-29

Pro users can now leverage Claude’s file creation and editing capabilities, and users on all paid plans can access these features on Claude for iOS or Android. See this updated article for more information: Create and edit files with Claude.

Official release notes

2025-09 Claude in Chrome updates · 2025-09-29

The remaining Max users on our waitlist were granted access to Claude in Chrome, along with the following updates:

2025-09 Claude’s memory on Enterprise plans · 2025-09-18

Users on Enterprise plans can leverage memory; Claude can now remember relevant context from your chats and generate a memory summary. Incognito chats give you a way to exclude conversations from Claude’s memory. Refer to the following articles for more information:

Official release notes

2025-09 Claude in Chrome expansion · 2025-09-16

Claude in Chrome expanded to 10,000 Max plan users with the release of new capabilities:

2025-09 Claude’s memory on Team plans and incognito chats for free, Pro, Max, and Team p · 2025-09-11

Claude can now remember relevant context from your chats and will generate a memory summary. Incognito chats give you a way to exclude conversations from Claude’s memory. Refer to the following new articles for more information:

Official release notes

2025-09 files with Claude · 2025-09-09

Claude can now create and edit Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint slide decks, documents, and PDFs directly in the Claude app. Refer to the following two articles for more information:

Official release notes

2025-09 Location, maps, and calendar access on Claude for iOS and Android · 2025-09-03

Claude can now connect with iOS and Android apps to draft calendar events, help you find locations, and manage reminders (iOS only). See updates to the following two articles for more information:

Official release notes
August

2025-08 Code Execution Tool · 2025-08-27

A new API tool that allows Claude to execute Python code in a secure, sandboxed environment. Refer to our docs for more information: Code execution tool.

Official release notes

2025-08 Claude in Chrome · 2025-08-26

An experimental browser extension that allows Claude to read, click, and navigate websites alongside you. See Getting Started with Claude in Chrome.

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2025-08 Admin controls for desktop extensions · 2025-08-21

Allows Team and Enterprise plans to enable/disable public desktop extensions and upload custom extensions. See Admin Controls for Desktop Extensions.

Official release notes

2025-08 shared artifacts embeddable · 2025-08-21

Claude users with free, Pro, or Max plans can generate an embed code for any published artifacts.

2025-08 Premium seats with Claude Code for Team and Enterprise plans · 2025-08-20

Introduced a premium seat tier for Team and Enterprise plans offering more usage and access to Claude Code. Refer to the following articles for more information:

Official release notes

2025-08 Extra usage for Team and Enterprise plans · 2025-08-20

A new setting allows Team and Enterprise plan users to purchase more usage to continue chatting with Claude or using Claude Code after hitting their usage limit. See Extra Usage for Team and Enterprise Plans.

Official release notes

2025-08 change monthly Team plan billing to annual · 2025-08-15

Allowing Team plan organizations with monthly billing to upgrade to annual billing. See How to change your Team plan from monthly to annual billing.

Official release notes

2025-08 1M token context window · 2025-08-12

The 1M token context window for Claude Sonnet 4 is currently in beta for API organizations in usage tier 4, or with custom rate limits. See 1M token context window in our docs for more information.

Official release notes

2025-08 search past conversations · 2025-08-11

Users on Max, Team, Enterprise plans can prompt Claude to search over past chats, allowing finer-grained context continuation and synthesizing across topics. See Searching past chats.

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2025-08 Claude Code Security Reviews · 2025-08-06

Two new cybersecurity features were added to Claude Code:

Official release notes

2025-08 Claude Opus 4.1 · 2025-08-05

Claude Opus 4.1 (an incremental update to Opus 4) brings enhanced performance as our most capable model for complex reasoning, analysis, and creative tasks.

Official release notes

2025-08 Project Sharing · 2025-08-01

Enabled project permissions and sharing for Team and Enterprise plans. See Organization-wide sharing for more information.

Official release notes

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