Reach for this when the deliverable needs to read like a competent senior wrote it.
The consumer-facing chat product at claude.ai, with Projects (persistent workspaces with uploaded reference files and system instructions), Artifacts (live HTML, React, SVG, Mermaid, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .pdf outputs), file-system memory, and remote MCP connectors. Pro at twenty US dollars per month is the entry point; Max at one hundred or two hundred US dollars per month removes the usage ceiling and gives priority model access. Live Artifacts, added in April 2026, refresh against connected data sources so dashboards and trackers update on reopen.
No native image generation, no native video generation, no voice mode, no native real-time web index of the quality Perplexity or ChatGPT offer. Web search is available but feels like a bolt-on. UK users still get the occasional capacity message on Pro during US working hours.
Free tier with daily caps. Pro twenty US dollars per month. Max one hundred US dollars per month (five times Pro usage) or two hundred US dollars per month (twenty times Pro usage). Team Standard twenty-five US dollars per seat per month, Premium one hundred and twenty-five US dollars per seat (includes Claude Code). Enterprise from circa five hundred US dollars per month, custom from there.
claude.ai is your default starting place. 90% of operator work begins and ends here. Reach for Cowork only when the task fundamentally needs file access, recurring autonomy, or a Live Artifact dashboard.