Claude

Claude is an AI assistant from Anthropic that has grown a lot over the past year. It holds a particularly strong position among professional users and businesses that care about quality in writing and code, precise instruction following, and thorough work with documents and complex tasks.

In the enterprise market Claude is one of the biggest players. The picture is more mixed than that, though. OpenAI is still larger in broad business use measured by reported customer base, and Microsoft Copilot has a clear advantage through its integration in Microsoft 365. Claude has still become the preferred choice for many organizations and knowledge workers, and it keeps growing quickly.

The ecosystem

Claude has one of the most complete ecosystems for developers and knowledge workers alike. Claude Code is a coding agent that runs in your terminal. Cowork is Claude's agentic tool for knowledge work. Projects gathers files and instructions into reusable workspaces. Design builds presentations and mockups for websites and web apps. There are add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint that work surprisingly well. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets Claude connect to external tools and data sources.

Read more about each tool on the pages below.

Limitations and things worth knowing

Claude cannot create images, although it can generate diagrams and simple illustrations with code. The free version of Claude runs on one of the weaker models, and in practice you get more out of the free version of ChatGPT. If you use voice mode a lot, ChatGPT is the better choice.

On paid plans Claude can also feel tighter on usage than some competitors, especially if you lean hard on the most advanced models (Opus and Fable). How quickly you hit the limits depends on your plan, the model and the kind of work you do.