Claude 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Claude

4.6

(28)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Claude

Claude is an AI assistant designed to support individuals, teams and enterprises across various industries such as education, coding, research, data analysis and creative work. It assists with tasks such as addressing complex questions, generating code, explaining difficult concepts and refining ideas into completed projects.

The platform includes features such as document and image upload for file analysis, tools for creating shareable artifacts and visualizations and voice mode for interaction. It offers project organization with persistent context, code generation and debugging across multiple programming languages, and web search capabilities for accessing current information. It also provides data analysis and visualization tools for identifying patterns, calculating statistics and creating visual representations.

Claude Screenshots

Claude Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Claude Features

Popular features found in Generative AI
Content Generation
Foundation Model
Natural Language Processing
Personalization and Recommendation
Transformer Model
More features of Claude
Adversarial Training
API
Automated Image & Video Editing
Code Generation
Conditional Generation
Data Augmentation
Interactive and Co-Creative Systems
Transfer Learning and Fine-tuning
Virtual Characters and Avatars

Claude User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

64%

29%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.4

Have you used Claude and would like to share your experience with others?

Leandro A.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Claude IA Review

Amazing.Claude IA improves my workflow significantly .I am using free tier and is more than enough for me .It is easy to use too

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I use Claude free tier , great value for money , it helps me write code .This IA es very clever , it also helps me refactorize codebases

Cons:

I don't have a single complain .I am using free tier .I never get out of tokens .And it is very smart.

Charles A.

Verified reviewer

Cosmetics

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

A friendly name to a useful asset.

Pleasant. Like chatting with a colleague while also looking to pull him up on certain things if it doesn't make complete sense.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that I can add documents and files and it can use lots of information to make a decision.

Cons:

There's a time-out when you use it a lot, but that workable. It also used to check URLs but currently doesn't. Also if the chat gets too big you have to start again, just to resend lots of the same info.

Reasons for choosing Claude

Better results at the time. It allowed me to upload further information in a closed-off environment. Also, I used POE.COM to compare all AI at the time and this was the one that impressed me the most.

Reasons for switching to Claude

I was concerned about security and wanted better results.

Verified

Reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

I'm sure its for some people but not me

Overall when I demoed this it did not perform as well for me as the other Large language models out there right now.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I am not a fan of this one and I use a lot. I feel like its good for coding and copyright but not too much else.

Cons:

I really do not like the way they handle context limits, you will be writing and working and something and have to start a new chat.

Dave V.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Great Daily Driver Ai

My overall experience has been great. I just hope they maintain the quantity and quality for loyal customers and not try to slowly increase our bills.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Claude is my daily driver for Ai. Everything from simple queries to writing code, reviewing code and fixing code. As a WordPress developer, it's helped me increase my speed an accuracy a tremendous amount. The value for money on a pro membership is solid.

Cons:

The daily and weekly usage amounts have been slowly shrinking and it's obvious. It feels disingenuous to long time customers to slowly shrink the service while also trying to increase prices. If claude has an error, it can eat up a bunch of tokens and you're stuck until they refresh with no help from customer service.

Reasons for switching to Claude

Superior content writing and creation. Much better conversations and thought processes.

Ben L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Excellent model for coding assistance and content creation

Overall I was impressed by the quality of responses that Claude provided. When generating content, Claude had a very consistent tone which differentiated it from others

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Claude Sonnet 3.5 provides excellent coding capabilities. Claude.ai user interface is very intuitive and flexible, allowing you to bring in your own documents and photos for a true multi-modal LLM. Claude performance is quite good and the accuracy is excellent as well.

Cons:

Sonnet 3.5 pricing is higher than some of the other competing LLMs. Currently it's not an issue but moving forward it will cost more at scale.

Reasons for switching to Claude

accuracy of the code completions was important

Charles W.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Too limited, even for paying users

I was initially excited about Claude. It seemed robust, particularly when code or analysis was requested, and it didn't have the fawning sycophancy or thin skin that ChatGPT often displays. I signed up for a paid month quickly and dove in on several projects. My initial impression quickly soured as Claude began posing quick message limits, particularly if the conversation did not resolve in a few posts. This was particularly annoying as a paid user. In one particularly bad example, it literally stalled several times, asking unnecessary questions or apologizing when called out for asking unnecessary questions rather than offering an answer. When it finally answered, that answer was objectively wrong, inconsistent with prior chat context, and triggered the exceeded message limit. I had to wait a day and start an entirely new window to get it to generate the 81 possible combinations for a training game we were creating. I have since canceled my paying membership. I will use Claude personally for free from time to time, but I will not be paying for business use again any time soon.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The coding feature is nice. Claude has a good grasp on a wide array of topics. Claude is not as sensitive as ChatGPT in terms of giving it feedback to keep it on track (ChatGPT routinely deletes my negative feedback as violating its terms of use, although it will still respond).

Cons:

Message limits are set too low even for paid customers to make Claude of any real use. Claude showed similar problems as other AIs in terms of making really dumb mistakes. At one point, it literally miscounted the number of correct answer choices in a 35 question quiz that was spread over 4 possible choices (i.e., it literally couldn't count single digits correctly).

Reasons for switching to Claude

Looking for more robust coding assistance and a less "sensitive" AI.

Jacalyn R.

Verified reviewer

Writing and Editing

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2024

Really Great Until It Ceases To Be

Before the bait and switch, I began to favor this program over Chat. And, while I think it is good, I may end up back with Chat as my priority go to.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Provides excellent suggestions for documents, emails, letter composure and more. Works fast.

Cons:

Most recently it has been indicating due to high capacity it is converting to shorter responses unless you upgrade. This feels like a bait and switch effort.

Reasons for switching to Claude

I thought Claude provide a more creative experience.

Niklas M.

Verified reviewer

Retail

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Claude is the most capable AI model I have used by now

Overall I love using Claude. It is by far my most favourite AI tool and ChatGPT is in my opinion only 75% as good as Claude. Particularly when it comes to writing copy for websites. ChatGPT texts are very easy to detect in my opinion. Claude is using a broader range of vocabulary and more natural-sounding sentences. For idea generation they are equally good in my opinion, I just prefer Claude over ChatGPT in 90% of cases. Only when I don't really mind about the result or check Claude responses with a second source I will rotate back to GPT.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Claude is probably the most intelligent AI model that I have ever used. It is extremely capable and can comprehend a lot of information. You can discuss with Claude a ton of different things, ranging from general advice to very particular ones, like how to communicate your brand values effectively and which word choice would make a better fit and why. Additionally it is worth mentioning that when it comes to coding, Claude is simply unbeatable. As someone who has very little knowledge in coding, I was able to create over 200 lines of code that can navigate webpages very efficiently and get exactly what I requested from them.

Cons:

Claude is very limiting in its messaging when you don't buy the Pro Model. The Projects part you get access to when buying Pro is in my opinion not even worth mentioning, as it dumbs Claude literally down to just the input you give it. It loses all its access to general information and idea-generating capabilities. Also sometimes Claude is struggling with simply giving plain text as a response. It likes giving lists, that in my opinion simply are not as dense in information as a good old text.

Reasons for switching to Claude

I have watched a review of Claude and it was simply outstanding. So I was simply waiting for the mail that it is available in Europe. When it was, I made the switch instantly and I don't regret it at all. Claude is so much better than ChatGPT in every regard! I am barely using GPT anymore, so I cannot say on how it has developed in the meantime.

Deyan G.

Verified reviewer

Internet

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

The best AI for coding

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Its coding abilities. I've tried dozens of AI chatbots and no one can beat Claude in Python (at least for my use cases)

Cons:

It's not that good for content creation. It also does lack some features from its rival chatGPT.

Reasons for switching to Claude

Claude is simply better at coding, which is the main reason I used Mistral in the first place.

Fred B.

Verified reviewer

Music

2-10 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Mett your friendly assistant Claude!

I'll use it again in my next works, for sure, but I hope it will integrate new features, such as real-time research on the net; but the engine really looks reliable.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Funnily enough, Claude talks to you like a real human; this feeling lasted long while I was using it; his answers look logicla and written in a subtle way

Cons:

Eventually, after having used it a certain amount of time, was blocked by the daily limit, switched to another one just to realize that the answers from i.e. ChatGPT, were far more convincing and complete

Reasons for switching to Claude

research for a more accurate product for my work

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