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Anthropic AI Solutions

Below are the primary AI tools and offerings from Anthropic.

Claude.ai

Description Claude.ai is the web-based chat interface for Anthropic’s Claude models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, and Haiku). It is designed to be a helpful and honest AI assistant that can process vast amounts of information, helping with writing, analysis, coding, and creative tasks. It is known for its large context window and safe, steerable responses.

How to Get Started

  1. Go to claude.ai.
  2. Sign up with an email address or Google account.
  3. Start a new chat to interact with the model.

Cost

  • Free Plan: Access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet (with rate limits) and Claude 3 Haiku.
  • Claude Pro ($20/month): 5x more usage, access to Claude 3 Opus, priority access, and early access to new features.
  • Claude Team ($25/user/month, min 5 users): Everything in Pro plus higher usage limits, central billing, and administration tools.
  • Enterprise: Custom pricing for large organizations requiring SSO, role-based access, and larger context windows.

API Key Needed?

  • No. The web interface does not require an API key.

Extra Notable Features

  • Projects: (Pro/Team only) Create dedicated workspaces with custom instructions and uploaded knowledge bases (docs, code) to ground Claude's responses in specific context.

Claude Artifacts

Description Artifacts turns Claude from a chat bot into a collaborative work environment. When Claude generates substantial content—like code, documents, or designs—it opens a dedicated window side-by-side with your conversation. This allows you to view, edit, and iterate on creation without losing your chat context.

Supported Types

  • Code: Python scripts, React components, SQL queries.
  • Visuals: SVG graphics, Mermaid diagrams, Interactive Dashboards.
  • Web: HTML/CSS/JS single-page apps (previewed live).
  • Documents: Markdown files, formatted reports.

How to Get Started

  1. Enable: Click your profile icon > "Feature Preview" > Toggle "Artifacts" to On (often default for Claude 3.5 Sonnet).
  2. Trigger: Ask Claude to "make a React app" or "write a document".
  3. Interact: The Artifact window opens automatically. You can switch between "Code" and "Preview" views.

Cost

  • Included: Available on all plans (Free, Pro, Team).
  • Publishing: Free to publish artifacts to a public URL.

Key Features

  • Live Preview: Run React code or render HTML instantly in the browser.
  • Versioning: Go back to previous versions of the artifact using the version selector.
  • Publish & Share: Click "Publish" to generate a public link to share your creation with anyone (even non-Claude users), or "Share" to share internal to your Team.

Anthropic Console (API)

Description The Anthropic Console is a developer platform for building applications with Claude. It provides the Workbench for prompt engineering and testing, and management for API keys and billing to integrate Claude models into external software.

How to Get Started

  1. Go to console.anthropic.com.
  2. Create an account or sign in.
  3. Generate an API key in the "API Keys" section.
  4. Use the Workbench to test prompts or install the SDK to start coding.

Cost

  • Pay-as-you-go: Pricing is based on tokens (per million input/output tokens).
    • Claude 3.5 Sonnet: ~$3.00 (Input) / $15.00 (Output) per million tokens.
    • Claude 3 Opus: ~$15.00 (Input) / $75.00 (Output) per million tokens.
    • Claude 3 Haiku: ~$0.25 (Input) / $1.25 (Output) per million tokens. (Prices are approximate and subject to change).

API Key Needed?

  • Yes. You must generate an API key to use the API in your applications.

Claude Skills

Description Claude Skills refers to the capability of Claude to perform specialized tasks using "Tool Use" or extended capabilities. Anthropic has standardized "Agent Skills" to allow Claude to interact with external data and tools (like computer use, web browsing via specific integrations, or validated internal tools).

How to Access

  • Through API: Developers define tools (function definitions) that Claude can decide to call.
  • Through Integrations: specialized capabilities are available in environments like the "Computer Use" public beta API.

Example Usages

Non-Technical User

  • Summarizing Long Documents: Upload a 50-page PDF report to Claude.ai and ask for a "3-bullet executive summary" and "key risks".
  • Drafting Content: Use Claude to draft emails, blog posts, or cover letters, then use the Artifacts feature to view the clean draft side-by-side while asking for edits in the chat.

Technical User

  • Frontend Prototyping: Ask Claude to "Create a React component for a dashboard card with Tailwind CSS." The result renders instantly in the Artifacts window for visual verification before copying the code.
  • Automated Data Extraction: Use the Anthropic API to pass thousands of unstructured support tickets to Claude 3 Haiku, requesting it to extract "Customer Sentiment" and "Category" as JSON output for a database.