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Claude vs Claude Code
Compare Claude vs Claude Code: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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claude.ai ↗ Claude Code
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Free tier
Limited Sonnet 4.6, ~30 messages/5h
Not free — requires Claude Pro or API credits
Standard plan
Pro — $20/mo
Claude Pro — $20/mo
Top plan
Max 20× — $200/mo
Claude Max 20× — $200/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$3.00
$3.00 Best
API output / 1M tokens
$15.00
$15.00 Best
Capability
Context window
1M
1M Best
Max output tokens
64K
64K Best
Knowledge cutoff
2026-03
2026-03
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
78% Best
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Math (AIME 2025)
78% Best
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Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
84% Best
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Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1395 Best
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Features
Image input
✓
✓
Voice mode
Partial
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Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
✓
Image generation
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Code execution
✓
✓
Agent / tool use
✓
✓
Persistent memory
✓
✓
Claude
Strongest at coding and long-context reasoning. No native image generation.
Claude Code
Anthropic's CLI coding agent. Same Claude models as the chat product, but optimized for autonomous, multi-file refactoring with bash + edit tools. Strongest at large-codebase reasoning.
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