Developed by Anthropic, Claude has quickly gained a reputation for being one of the most helpful, safe, and creative chatbots in 2025. Known for its long-context memory and human-like reasoning, Claude is especially loved by students, researchers, and businesses.
Claude is named after Claude Shannon, the “father of information theory.” Its design philosophy is focused on helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness. This makes it stand out in areas like research assistance, content generation, summarization, and safe brainstorming.
Claude can handle documents with 100k+ tokens, making it ideal for summarizing books, research papers, and long chats.
Anthropic emphasizes AI safety. Claude is less likely to generate harmful or biased outputs.
Great at drafting essays, brainstorming stories, and refining creative ideas.
Useful for meeting notes, research briefs, and summarizing large company reports.
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Developer | Anthropic |
| Est. Monthly Users | 18.9 million |
| Pricing | Free & Pro Plans (starts ~$20/month) |
| Strength | Research, summarization, safe conversations |
| Weakness | Less “fun” personality vs. ChatGPT, slower rollouts of new tools |