Claude

What it does

Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic. It stands out for complex reasoning, long-form writing, and code generation. Available via web (claude.ai), mobile app, API, and developer tools (Claude Code, IDE extensions).

In 2026, Anthropic keeps three primary models active: Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5. All support 200K–1M token context. Opus 4.7 scored 64.3% on SWE-bench Pro — the highest among publicly available models — making it the leading coding model of 2026.

Claude’s focus areas: professional writing, coding, document analysis, research synthesis, and long-context tasks. Unlike ChatGPT, it does not generate images, audio, or video natively — it only understands text and images.

Models

All models have a 5x output/input price ratio. Prompt caching offers 90% off, Batch API 50% off.

Pricing

• Free — Sonnet access, daily message cap
• Pro ($20/mo) — Opus access, Projects, custom Skills
• Max ($100–200/mo) — 5–20× Pro usage, priority access
• Team / Enterprise — admin console, SSO, centralized billing

Capabilities

• Long-form writing with minimal editing
• Multi-file code editing and codebase analysis
• 1M-token context for whole codebases or document sets
• Vision: image understanding (no generation)
• Computer Use — autonomous task execution
• MCP for external system connections
• Skills for packaged behaviors

Strengths

• Leading coding performance (77.2% SWE-bench, 64.3% SWE-bench Pro)
• Natural writing quality — preferred by ~70% of developers
• 1M-token context without quality drop
• Lower hallucination rate on factual tasks
• Growing MCP + Skills ecosystem

Weaknesses

• No native image, audio, or video generation
• Higher API costs than GPT-5.5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro
• Tighter Pro-tier rate limits
• Conservative responses on creative tasks
• Smaller third-party marketplace (vs GPT Store)

Ecosystem

One of Claude’s strongest aspects is its Skills and MCP ecosystem. Nayomy indexes 176 Skills and 403 MCP servers — extending Claude with domain knowledge, workflows, and external integrations.