AI Tools and Platforms

Claude (Anthropic)

Anthropic's AI assistant and model family, available as a consumer app and a developer API, with native support for the Model Context Protocol for connecting to external tools and data.

Vendor
Anthropic
Category
AI Assistant / Model Platform
Pricing Model
Free tier + subscription + pay per token (API)
API Available
Yes
Free Tier
Yes

Claude is Anthropic's family of large language models, offered both as a consumer assistant (claude.ai) and a developer API for building AI-powered applications. Claude models support long context windows, tool use, and structured output, and Anthropic maintains the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting models to external tools, files, and data sources. That makes Claude a common building block in AI-to-AI and agent-to-tool communication pipelines, not just single-turn chat.

Topics:

  • Anthropic
  • Claude
  • large language model
  • Model Context Protocol
  • tool use
  • AI assistant