Claude Code
Agentic CLI coding assistant
About Claude Code
Anthropic's CLI agent reads your entire codebase, plans multi-file changes, runs tests, and executes complex engineering tasks autonomously from the terminal. Built for engineers who want AI that understands a full project in context rather than autocompleting in isolation — agentic by design and unusually good at not breaking things.
Pricing plans
- Fast agentic tasks
- CLI + SDK
- Multi-file edits
- Most capable model
- Complex reasoning
- Best for hard tasks
How Claude Code compares
| Rating | 4.5 | 5 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
| Reviews | 122 | 36 | 190 | 207 |
| Price | Usage-based (API) | From $20/mo | From $20/mo | From $20/mo |
| Free tier | None | $5 credits/mo | Free tier available | 5 credits/day |
| API access | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Watermark | No | No | No | No |
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