Anthropic's agentic coding tool in your terminal.
Claude Code reads, edits and runs your project from the command line, with hooks, skills, subagents and MCP servers for extending it. Also available as a desktop app and IDE extension.
Works with
Key info
- Pricing
- Paid
- Platform
- macOS · Windows · Linux
- Category
- CLIs
- Best for
- Intermediate
- Free plan
- None; needs a paid Claude plan or API credits
- Paid plans from
- $20 a month (Claude Pro), or pay per token with an API key
- Install
- curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash (Windows: irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex)
- Models
- Claude
- Your own API key
- Yes, an Anthropic key, or Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI or Microsoft Foundry
- Local models
- No
- Good for
- Handing multi-step coding tasks to an agent that runs commands and edits files
Guided walkthroughs
Related reading
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