Claude vs Claude Code

Side-by-side comparison of Claude and Claude Code: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Claude Anthropic's safety-focused AI assistant — exceptional at long documents and nuanced reasoning. Visit	Claude Code Agentic AI coding assistant by Anthropic that works directly in your terminal Visit
Category	Chat assistants	Coding & development
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price	USD 20/mo
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	Technical
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	Anthropic	Anthropic
Founded	2021	2021
Headquarters	San Francisco, US	San Francisco, USA
Key strengths	·200K context window ·coding ·long document analysis ·instruction following	·Deep codebase understanding via file system access ·Agentic multi-step task execution in the terminal ·Reads, writes, and runs code autonomously ·Tight integration with git and shell workflows