Claude: Anthropic's AI for writing, analysis and code

Claude is the AI assistant built by Anthropic. You give it a brief, a contract, some notes or a piece of code, and it hands back a written text, a summary, an analysis or a program that runs. It is available on the web, as a desktop app and on mobile, but also in Chrome, in Microsoft 365 and on the command line with Claude Code. Several models coexist (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus and the newest ones), and the plan you pick decides which ones you can use and how much.

Freelancers who write, analyse or code every day: writers, consultants, developers, designers, trainers. If your day is made of business proposals, client documents to review, content to prepare or code to ship, Claude saves you time on the first draft and on the review. If what you mostly want is image generation or a marketplace of "GPTs", ChatGPT is more complete on that front. If you want a European AI, look at Mistral AI.

• Write: proposals, follow-up emails, sales pages, LinkedIn posts, with a natural tone that holds up on long texts.
• Analyse documents: drop in a contract, a spec, a PDF or a screenshot and ask your questions about it.
• Search the web and create files: web search, file creation and code execution are included from the free plan.
• Keep the context: memory across conversations and Projects (Pro plan) keep each client's context in its place.
• Hand off tasks: on Pro, you delegate a job and get back a finished document, slide deck, spreadsheet or design.
• Code: Claude Code (included in Pro) works directly in your repository, for an automation script as well as a full website.

• Free: $0. Chat on web, desktop and mobile, web search, file creation, code execution, memory across conversations and connections to your tools, with a usage limit.
• Pro: $17 per month with an annual subscription ($200 billed up front), or $20 per month billed monthly, no commitment. More usage, task hand-off, Claude Code, Claude Science, Projects, more models, Claude in Chrome and Microsoft 365.
• Max and Ultra: from $100 per month, for people who work with Claude all day: 5x Pro usage every 5 hours and every week, or 10x Pro usage every week, early access to new features and priority at busy times.
• Team and Enterprise: offers for teams, price shown on the official website.

Prices before tax, subject to change by Anthropic. Prices checked on claude.ai in November 2026.

At FreelanceKit, we picked Claude for a simple reason: among the assistants we list, it is the one that writes best and holds up best when you hand it a large document to digest. For a freelancer, that means a clean business proposal in twenty minutes, and a 30-page contract summarised with its points of attention. The free plan lets you check that without taking out your credit card.

The weak point to know: usage limits. On a heavy day, the Free plan runs out fast, and even on Pro you can hit the "limit reached" message when you chain long conversations with heavy documents. Above that, the jump goes straight to Max at $100 per month, with no middle tier. And prices are in dollars before tax: your bill in euros depends on the exchange rate.

If you are hesitating between ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral AI or Perplexity, see our page on alternatives to Claude.