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Claude
Support conversational research, analysis, drafting, coding and sustained knowledge work across web, desktop and mobile.
Kingy AI Product Facts
Claude
Current statusGenerally available
- Company
- Anthropic
- Primary job
- Conversational research, analysis, writing, coding and multi-step knowledge work across web, desktop and mobile.
- Audience
- individual knowledge workers, students and researchers, developers using the Claude chat product, teams and organizations
- Free plan
- Available
- Evidence
- Source-backed; coverage expanding
- Coverage
- 23 of 83 core fields recorded
- Sources
- 9
- Latest source check
- August 30, 2026
See all tracked product factsPricing, platforms, dependencies, data claims, regions, and timeline
Plans and pricing units
- Free 0 · USD · user
- Max 20x 200 · USD · user
- Max 5x 100 · USD · user
- Pro annual 200 · USD · user
- Pro monthly 20 · USD · user
- Team Premium annual 100 · USD · seat
- Team Premium monthly 125 · USD · seat
- Team Standard annual 20 · USD · seat
- Team Standard monthly 25 · USD · seat
Where it runs
- Android
- AvailableOfficial sources: Get started with Claude
- Android — Install or access
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anthropic.claudeSource: Get started with Claude
- Ios
- AvailableOfficial sources: Get started with Claude
- Ios — Install or access
- https://apps.apple.com/app/claude-by-anthropic/id6473753684Source: Get started with Claude
- Macos
- AvailableOfficial sources: Get started with Claude
- Macos — Install or access
- https://claude.ai/downloadSource: Get started with Claude
- Web
- AvailableOfficial sources: Get started with Claude
- Web — Install or access
- https://claude.ai/Source: Get started with Claude
- Windows
- AvailableOfficial sources: Get started with Claude
- Windows — Install or access
- https://claude.ai/downloadSource: Get started with Claude
Stack and integrations
- Model / provider dependencies
- Not yet reviewed
- Integrations
- Not yet reviewed
Data and regions
- Vendor data-use claim
- Known — see Facts JSON
- Vendor retention claim
- Known — see Facts JSON
- Regions
- Not yet reviewed
Launch and latest material update
- Launch
- Not yet reviewed
- Latest material update
- Not yet reviewed
Review history
- Claude — Product Facts updated
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Living Product Passport · Official-source buyer analysis
Claude review: pricing, privacy and plan limits
Claude is Anthropic’s general-purpose AI product for research, writing, analysis and coding. Its plan ladder is easy to quote—but usage limits, regional checkout, API billing and data handling need careful separation.
Claude is a strong fit for people who value clear writing, analysis and multi-step knowledge work. Free is useful for occasional use; Pro is the sensible individual baseline; Max is a capacity purchase, not a different model licence; Team adds administration and per-seat controls. Do not treat a Claude subscription as API credit or assume every chat has the same retention path.
Claude is the product—not the API or a model name
Anthropic provides Claude. Claude Code and Claude Cowork are separately named Anthropic products or capabilities that can be included with some Claude plans. Claude Platform/API is separately metered, while Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, Mythos and Fable are model families—not alternate names for the Claude product.
Best buyer job
Conversational research, analysis, drafting, coding and sustained knowledge work across web, desktop and mobile.
Important boundary
A Claude subscription is designed for Anthropic’s native apps and eligible included products. It does not include ordinary Anthropic API usage.
Official US-reference pricing
These are official US-dollar reference prices, not a promise of Canadian checkout totals. Currency conversion, tax, app-store pricing, promotions and regional availability can change the amount shown to a buyer.
Web, desktop and mobile
Claude is available at claude.ai, on macOS and Windows desktop, and on iOS and Android. Free usage resets on a session basis every five hours, but the number of messages varies with demand and other limits. Max adds capacity rather than removing every cap.
Training choice does not erase every retention path
Consumer users can control model improvement in Privacy Settings. When enabled, de-identified chats or coding sessions may remain in training pipelines for up to five years. Incognito chats are not used to improve Claude. Deleted chats disappear from history immediately and are stated to leave back-end storage within 30 days.
Separate exception clocks matter: flagged inputs and outputs may be retained up to two years, safety classification scores up to seven years, and feedback-associated data for five years. Legal, dispute and policy-enforcement exceptions can apply.
Enabled integrations can receive inputs, outputs and instructions under their own privacy policies. Canadian personal data may be processed outside Canada, including in the United States.
Output rights are scoped, not a quality guarantee
The current consumer terms assign Anthropic’s rights, if any, in outputs to the user subject to compliance with those terms. They also warn that outputs and actions may be inaccurate. This passport does not convert that assignment into a blanket copyright, non-infringement or commercial-suitability guarantee.
Evidence and disclosure
Reviewer: Curtis Pyke. Nine current first-party Anthropic/Claude sources were reviewed signed out on August 30, 2026. This record contains 147 Product Facts and 147/147 direct evidence bindings. No paid checkout, account-specific quota test, API call, integration, data-deletion test or independent security audit was performed.
Kingy’s existing Claude tool, launch and shared video records are excluded from Product Facts evidence and independent-test claims. Shared video post 928275 is sponsored and disclosure-resolved in retained WordPress evidence, but its canonical artifact-specific publication audit remains incomplete. No commercial relationship is inferred beyond that exact retained record.
- Claude product overviewChecked August 30, 2026
- Choose a Claude planChecked August 30, 2026
- What is the Max plan?Checked August 30, 2026
- What is the Team plan?Checked August 30, 2026
- Get started with ClaudeChecked August 30, 2026
- Consumer Terms of ServiceChecked August 30, 2026
- How long do you store my data?Checked August 30, 2026
- Privacy PolicyChecked August 30, 2026
- Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy PolicyChecked August 30, 2026
Claude buyer FAQ
Does Claude Pro include API usage?
No. Anthropic states that Pro is for the Claude chat experience and API usage is set up and billed separately.
What does Claude Pro cost?
The official reference is $20 USD monthly or $200 USD annually. Regional currency, tax and checkout pricing may differ.
Does Max remove all usage limits?
No. Max provides five or twenty times Pro capacity per session, with five-hour session resets and weekly limits.
Are consumer chats used for training?
Users choose the model-improvement setting. Feedback and safety-review exceptions remain, and Incognito chats are not used to improve Claude.
How quickly are deleted chats removed?
Anthropic says deletion removes a chat from history immediately and from back-end storage within 30 days, subject to stated legal and safety exceptions.
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Launch History
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with improved coding, agentic task performance, professional work quality, effort controls, and Claude Code dynamic workflows.
- Launch readiness
- 7.9 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with improved coding, agentic task performance, effort controls, and Claude Code dynamic workflows, priced at $5 per million input…
Claude Opus 4.7 launches as an Anthropic frontier model update for agent work
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 as a frontier Claude update relevant to demanding coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks.
A frontier Claude release is relevant to the agent market because high-capability models determine what long-running agents can reliably complete.
Claude Opus 4.5 launches as Anthropic’s frontier agentic model update
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 as a frontier Claude model update with emphasis on advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic work.
A relevant model launch because the strongest Claude tier often becomes the default choice for demanding agent tasks.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 launches with major coding-agent and computer-use gains
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, positioning it as a top model for coding, complex agents, and computer use while also launching related Claude Code and Agent SDK upgrades.
A high-signal model release for agents because Anthropic explicitly tied it to coding, computer use, and the Claude Agent SDK.
Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 as an upgrade to Opus 4 for agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
- Launch readiness
- 7.4 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 as an upgrade to Opus 4 for agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning, at the same pricing as its…
Introducing Claude 4
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, plus Claude Code general availability and new API capabilities for agents.
A top-tier launch for this hub because Claude 4 tied frontier models directly to developer-agent adoption.
Claude can now search the web
Anthropic added web search to Claude, enabling current web retrieval, source citations, and source-backed answers inside Claude conversations.
- Launch readiness
- 6.6 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
Anthropic added web search to Claude, enabling current web retrieval, source citations, and source-backed answers inside conversations (claude.com). It closes a gap that had…
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
Anthropic launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet as a hybrid reasoning model and introduced Claude Code, an agentic command-line coding tool, in research preview.
- Launch readiness
- 7.2 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
Anthropic launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet as a hybrid reasoning model and introduced Claude Code, an agentic command-line coding tool, in research preview (anthropic.com). The…
Collaborate with Claude on Projects
Anthropic launched Projects in Claude.ai, letting Pro and Team users organize chats and knowledge into persistent workspaces.
- Launch readiness
- 6.6 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
Anthropic launched Projects in Claude, letting Pro and Team users organize chats, uploaded knowledge, and instructions into persistent workspaces (anthropic.com). Enterprises, Researchers, and Operators…
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the first release in the Claude 3.5 model family, with strong intelligence, coding, vision, and API availability.
- Launch readiness
- 7.2 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the first model in that family, with strong intelligence, coding, and vision available on free Claude access, Pro and…