Anthropic opens up its Claude Cowork feature to anyone with a $20 subscription
Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s AI assistant for taking care of simple tasks on your computer, is now available to anyone with a $20 per month Pro subscription. Anthropic launched Cowork as an exclusive feature for its Max subscribers, who pay a minimum of $100 per month for more uses of Claude’s expensive reasoning models and early access to experimental features. Claude Cowork is now available at a cheaper price, although Anthropic notes that “Pro users may reach their usage limits sooner” than Max users.
Like other AI agents, the novelty of Claude Cowork lies in its ability to work autonomously. If you have the macOS Claude app and a Pro subscription, you can invite Claude Cowork to work on tasks on your local computer, like creating documents based on the files you’ve saved or organizing your folders. The feature is an evolution of Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent, and can also use connectors and the Claude Chrome plugin to work with other apps and the web.
As part of this expanded rollout, Anthropic has included some fixes inspired by early user feedback. You’ll now be able to rename sessions with Claude Cowork (“Tasks” in Claude app parlance) and the company says the AI assistant will offer better previews of file formats, more reliable use of connectors to other apps, and confirmation messages before deleting files.
Coding agents top the list of AI applications that have gained traction over the past year. So it makes sense that Anthropic would apply what it learned with Claude Code to a more general set of computing tasks. Claude Cowork is still limited to paid subscribers of macOS and Anthropic, but assuming the AI agent continues to be popular, it wouldn’t be surprising if the company introduced it to other platforms.
