AI Tool Profile
Claude
Support conversational research, analysis, drafting, coding and sustained knowledge work across web, desktop and mobile.
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Review due · Official-source review; no new hands-on test
This review covers the notes below. Earlier prices, tests and Product Facts retain their original dates.
Anthropic’s product page presents Claude for drafting, analyzing information and producing work such as prototypes and decks. These are vendor-described workflows, not measured Kingy success rates. Claude product overview
Check before choosing: Check the selected plan, available model and actual task limits. The earlier article’s prices and retention claims were not fully rechecked in this workflow review.
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Review scope and source notes
Earlier article text, prices, tests and Product Facts keep their original dates and scope. This check covers only the cited notes here; it does not refresh the whole profile or its machine-readable facts.
Checked by: Codex-assisted official-source review. Task fit is editorial guidance. Test the exact plan, model and route with your own fixture.
Commercial relationship: Not established by this source review. Existing article disclosures still apply.
- Claude product overview — Take tasks off your desk; Turn ideas into something real. Checked 2026-09-20.
Maintenance history
- 2026-09-20 · source recheck · Source recheck
Coverage describes this profile, not a product score or a current price guarantee.
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; review due
- Latest source check
- October 21, 2026
See all tracked product factsPricing, platforms, dependencies, data claims, regions, and timeline
Sources and checks
- Coverage
- 9 of 87 tracked fields currently verified
- Sources
- 11
Source-check dates apply to the tracked facts. Editorial updates elsewhere on this page may have a different date.
Plans and pricing units
- Free Free Consumer account
- Max 20x 200 USD per user per month Consumer account
- Max 5x 100 USD per user per month Consumer account
- Pro annual 200 USD per user per year · annual commitment Consumer account
- Pro monthly 20 USD per user per month Consumer account
- Team Premium annual 100 USD per seat per month, billed annually · US reference price excludes applicable taxes; region and currency may differ. Team account
- Team Premium monthly 125 USD per seat per month · US reference price excludes applicable taxes; region and currency may differ. Team account
- Team Standard annual 20 USD per seat per month, billed annually · US reference price excludes applicable taxes; region and currency may differ. Team account
- Team Standard monthly 25 USD per seat per month · US reference price excludes applicable taxes; region and currency may differ. Team account
Where it runs
- Android
- Available
- Ios
- Available
- Macos
- Available
- Web
- Available
- Windows
- Available
Stack and integrations
- Model / provider dependencies
- Not yet reviewed
- Integrations
- Not yet reviewed
Data and regions
- Vendor data-use claim
- Claims: 7 due for review.
- Vendor retention claim
- Claims: 6 due for review.
- Regions
- Not yet reviewed
Read data-use and retention claims
Conditions differ by account and product surface. Each claim keeps its own review date.
- Service delivery — Account type: api_separation
- Conditions: Claude subscriptions and Anthropic API usage are governed and billed separately.; An individual Pro plan does not include Claude API usage. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: Consumer Terms of Service
- Processing region — Account type: canada
- Conditions: Personal data may be transferred or disclosed outside Canada, including to the United States and listed subprocessor locations. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: Privacy Policy
- Deletion controls — Account type: consumer_deleted_chat
- Conditions: Deleting a conversation removes it from chat history immediately.; Back-end deletion is stated as within 30 days.; Deleted chats will not be used to train future models. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: How long do you store my data?
- Deletion window — Account type: consumer_deleted_chat
- P30D Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: How long do you store my data?
- Retention duration — Account type: consumer_training
- P5Y Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
- Deletion exceptions — Account type: consumer
- Conditions: Chats and coding sessions may be retained as required by law, to resolve disputes, or to combat Usage Policy violations.; Anonymized or de-identified information may be retained longer. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: How long do you store my data?
- Inputs — Account type: consumer
- Categories: prompts; uploaded files; connected-service content; account and technical data; Conditions: Inputs can be processed to provide Claude and enabled features. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: Privacy Policy
- Model training — Account type: consumer
- Applies: Yes; Conditions: Consumer chats and coding sessions may be used for model improvement when the user enables the setting.; Feedback and safety-review exceptions can apply even when the user opts out. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: Consumer Terms of Service
- Opt out — Account type: consumer
- Available: Yes; Conditions: Users can change the model-improvement setting in Privacy Settings.; Turning the setting off stops prior and new chats from future model training, subject to runs already in progress and safety/feedback exceptions. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: How long do you store my data?
- Outputs — Account type: consumer
- Conditions: Anthropic assigns its rights, if any, in outputs to the user subject to compliance with the Consumer Terms.; Outputs may be inaccurate and require independent verification. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: Consumer Terms of Service
- Retention duration — Account type: feedback
- P5Y Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: How long do you store my data?
- Model training — Account type: incognito
- Applies: No; Conditions: Incognito chats are not used to improve Claude even when Model Improvement is enabled. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: How long do you store my data?
- Service delivery — Account type: integrations
- Conditions: Claude may send inputs, outputs and instructions to enabled third-party services to perform requested actions.; Third-party services process received data under their own policies.; Ongoing access can continue until the integration is disabled or disconnected. Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: Privacy Policy
- Retention duration — Account type: safety_flagged_content
- P2Y Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: How long do you store my data?
- Retention duration — Account type: safety_scores
- P7Y Review overdue; do not assume this still applies.Claim reviewed: 2026-09-01Sources: How long do you store my data?
Launch and latest material update
- Launch
- Not yet reviewed
- Latest material update
- Not yet reviewed
Review history
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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
Team billing terms rechecked September 20, 2026 Pacific: the annual offers are US$20 per Standard seat per month and US$100 per Premium seat per month, billed annually. Those are monthly equivalents, not the total annual charge. Monthly billing remains US$25 and US$125 per seat. Minimum two members; applicable taxes are extra.
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
September 20, 2026 Pacific correction: fixed the monthly amount basis of the two Team annual offers in Product Facts and their displayed labels. The quoted prices did not change. Earlier review dates and non-pricing claims below retain their original scope.
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
- Claude plans and pricingCurrent pricing destination; former Choose a Claude plan URL returned 404 on September 20, 2026 Pacific
- What is the Max plan?Checked August 30, 2026
- What is the Team plan?Team price and billing terms rechecked September 20, 2026 Pacific; other claims retain their original review scope
- 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
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is released through the Claude API and supported partner platforms. Access: Claude API and partner-platform release.
Check the Sonnet 5.5 model identifier and availability on your provider. Run your existing workload before moving an integration.
Claude Compliance API local Microsoft 365 sessions GA
Local Microsoft 365 session endpoints in the Claude Compliance API leave beta. Access: Local session endpoints out of beta.
Check Claude Compliance API endpoint and administrator permissions. Then update local Microsoft 365 audit collection for the GA endpoints.
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.
Anthropic introduced Sonnet 4.5 in September 2025 for coding, computer use and agents, alongside the separate Claude Agent SDK. Its lifecycle documentation now lists…
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 in August 2025 for agentic tasks, coding and reasoning, at the same launch pricing as Opus 4. Anthropic retired…
Introducing Claude 4
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, plus Claude Code general availability and new API capabilities for agents.
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 and announced Claude Code general availability in May 2025. Anthropic retired claude-opus-4-20250514 and claude-sonnet-4-20250514 on June…
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 and introduced Claude Code in a limited research preview in February 2025. Anthropic retired claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 on February 19, 2026.…
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…
Kingy coverage
Kingy AI articles about Claude, newest first. Includes coverage of Claude models such as Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.
- NewsAnthropic Tightens Claude AI Safety After Investigating Unexpected Actions on Government Websites
- BlogYour Claude Subscription Now Works in Amp. What Still Costs Money?
- BlogClaude Builds Its Own Multi-Agent Workflow: Does It Beat One Agent?
- BlogClaude Dashboards & Motion: Access, Pricing & Setup
- BlogClaude Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-6 Luna: 160 Responses, $0 Added Spend—and a Scoring Catch
- BlogClaude Haiku 5.5: Benchmarks, Specs, Pricing and How It Compares with GPT-6 Sol and Luna
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