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Claude Code

Code Assistant

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal

4.5
by Anthropic
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Starting Price

Pay per use

Free Tier

No

API

Available

Platforms

desktop

Overview

Claude Code is Anthropic's CLI tool that brings Claude's capabilities directly to your terminal. It can read, write, and edit files, run commands, search codebases, and handle complex multi-file engineering tasks autonomously.

Pricing Plans

Popular

API Usage

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Billed per API token usage

  • Full codebase awareness
  • Multi-file editing
  • Terminal commands
  • Git integration
  • Agentic workflow

Max (via Claude Pro)

$100/mo
  • Included in Claude Max plan
  • No per-token costs
  • Same capabilities

API Pricing: Uses Claude API pricing (Sonnet 4.6: $3/$15, Opus 4.6: $5/$25 per 1M tokens)

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Works in your actual terminal and codebase
  • Excellent for complex multi-file tasks
  • Git-aware workflow
  • Can run tests and commands

Cons

  • API costs can add up quickly
  • Requires terminal comfort
  • No GUI
  • Context window limits on very large codebases

Detailed Ratings

Overall

4.5

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for Money

4.0

Output Quality

4.6

Good For

Best for Coding

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