Claude Code
Terminal-based agentic coding by Anthropic
Overall score
About
Claude Code is Anthropic's official agentic coding tool that runs in the terminal and IDE, capable of editing files, running commands, and completing complex engineering tasks autonomously. It leverages Claude's frontier models with deep codebase understanding and tool use.
Best for: Engineers who want an autonomous AI coding agent for terminal and IDE workflows.
Pricing
Bundled with Claude Pro
- Monthly
- $20
- Annual /mo
- $17
- Billing
- flat
- Notes
- Claude Code in terminal/web/desktop; Sonnet & Opus access; shared Pro token budget · Bundled with Claude Pro
Bundled with Claude Max 5x
- Monthly
- $100
- Annual /mo
- $100
- Billing
- flat
- Notes
- 5x Pro usage; Claude Code included; priority access · Bundled with Claude Max 5x
Bundled with Claude Max 20x
- Monthly
- $200
- Annual /mo
- $200
- Billing
- flat
- Notes
- 20x Pro usage; Claude Code included; higher rate limits · Bundled with Claude Max 20x
Bundled with Team Premium
min 5 seats- Monthly
- $100
- Annual /mo
- $100
- Billing
- per_user
- Notes
- Claude Code for all seats; centralised admin; 5-seat minimum · Team Premium only; Team Standard does NOT include Claude Code
| Tier | Monthly | Annual /mo | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bundled with Claude Pro | $20 | $17 | flat | Claude Code in terminal/web/desktop; Sonnet & Opus access; shared Pro token budget · Bundled with Claude Pro |
| Bundled with Claude Max 5x | $100 | $100 | flat | 5x Pro usage; Claude Code included; priority access · Bundled with Claude Max 5x |
| Bundled with Claude Max 20x | $200 | $200 | flat | 20x Pro usage; Claude Code included; higher rate limits · Bundled with Claude Max 20x |
| Bundled with Team Premiummin 5 seats | $100 | $100 | per_user | Claude Code for all seats; centralised admin; 5-seat minimum · Team Premium only; Team Standard does NOT include Claude Code |
Key features
- Terminal-native agent
- multi-file edits and refactors
- codebase indexing and search
- MCP server support
- IDE plugins for VS Code and JetBrains
Integrations
Trust & compliance
- Stage range
- Seed → Growth
- Founded
- 2025
- Status
- active
- SOC 2
- yes
- GDPR
- yes
- Data residency
- us
- External rating
- 4.8 on G2 (95 reviews)
- Last verified
- Jun 2026
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Alex Albert
Head of Claude Relations
Albert announced the limited research-preview launch of Claude Code on X in February 2025 and has been the primary public voice for Claude Code since. He posts feature announcements (IDE integration, MCP server support), demos and Anthropic-internal examples of how the team uses Claude Code for development tasks. His talks at Anthropic's Code with Claude event were headlined by Claude Code updates.
Andrew Ng
Founder; AI Educator
Andrew Ng partnered with Anthropic to ship 'the definitive course' on Claude Code, taught by Elie Schoppik. He's a hands-on user himself: he built a voice-enabled math-quiz app for his daughter using Claude Code plus Vocal Bridge, demonstrating the agent's ability to handle multi-component application development. The course covers Claude Code's full feature set as Anthropic ships it.
Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO
Brian Chesky publicly endorsed Claude Code on Airbnb's Q1 2026 earnings call, saying many of his design and engineering leaders are 'going back to coding or using Claude Code' as AI now writes approximately 60% of Airbnb's code. He frames Claude Code as the layer that lets one engineer supervise the work that previously took a team of 20, and as the reason managers are getting hands-on with code again instead of pure people-management.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Founder & CEO; Co-host All-In
Chamath Palihapitiya publicly recommended migrating off Cursor to Claude Code in early 2026, citing equivalent capability at much lower cost. His framing was that Cursor's token-based billing produced 'huge bills' that Claude Code's Pro plan eliminates. The recommendation came after his own portfolio company 8090 saw AI costs more than triple between November 2025 and early 2026, trending to $10M+/year.
Cole Medin
Founder; Creator
Medin builds with Claude Code via the Anthropic Agent SDK in his agent masterclass. His Pydantic AI agent that implements Claude Skills concepts is a public example of how he uses Claude Code as a development primitive, not just a chat surface. He treats Claude Code as the right path for shipping agent code that runs autonomously in production.
Corbin Brown
Founder; Creator
Brown's January 2026 video 'DITCH Lovable, Bolt, and Cursor: Use Claude Code Instead' is one of the most direct endorsements of Claude Code from the vibe-coding YouTube space. He frames Claude Code as the right next step for builders who started with no-code AI builders and are ready to graduate to terminal-native agentic coding. He pairs the endorsement with a full setup guide.
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