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Claude
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Anthropic's thoughtful AI assistant
4.7Launched 2023
Free plan
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Overview
Long-context AI assistant known for nuanced writing and safe outputs.
Key features
- 200K context
- Artifacts
- Projects
- Computer Use
- Vision
- Code execution
Pricing
Free
$0
- Claude Sonnet
- Limited messages
Pro
$20/mo
- Claude Opus
- Projects
- 5x more usage
Max
$100/mo
- 20x usage
- Priority access
- Early features
Pros & cons
Pros
- Excellent writing quality
- Massive context window
- Strong reasoning
- Artifacts UI is great
Cons
- No native image generation
- Smaller ecosystem than ChatGPT
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