AnythingLLM vs Claude
AnythingLLM
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Claude
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| Figure | AnythingLLM | Claude |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $50/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 13 |
| Spec score · Ai Assistant | 9.3 (#2) | 9.1 (#5) |
| Spec score · Virtual Assistant | 9.2 (#2) | 9.0 (#4) |
| Spec score · AI chatbots and assistants | 9.0 (#10) | 9.2 (#5) |
| File uploads | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Image generation | Yes | No |
| App integrations | Yes | Claude connectors can link to services such as Asana, Linear, Notion, PayPal, Square, Plaid, Intercom, Zapier, and Workato. |
| Mobile apps | Yes | Yes |
| Support | The Pro cloud plan includes a 72-hour support SLA, while Enterprise offers a custom SLA. | Claude Help Center articles provide product guidance, setup instructions, and troubleshooting information. |
| Team workspace | Yes | Yes |
| Web search | Yes | Claude can search the web and provide responses with citations and source links. |
Plans
AnythingLLM
- Basic$50 a month
- Pro$99 a month
- DesktopFree
- Self-hostedFree
- EnterprisePriced on request
Claude
- FreeFree
- ProPrice not published
- Team Standard seatPrice not published
- Team Premium seatPrice not published
- Enterprise$20 a year
- Pro (monthly)$20 a month
- Team standard seat (annual)$20 a year
- Team standard seat (monthly)$25 a month
- Max 5x$100 a month
- Team premium seat (annual)$100 a year
In their own words
AnythingLLM
AnythingLLM is a private AI assistant for desktop, mobile, cloud, and self-hosted use. Its desktop product runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and the free Desktop plan requires no account or API key and has no token limits. It can turn documents into an agent knowledge base while keeping the data on the device. Desktop tools include file-system capabilities, web search and scraping, model selection, background jobs, custom agent skills, and a Meeting Assistant that records, transcribes, summarizes, and indexes meetings on the computer without a bot joining or cloud processing. The mobile app runs small models on-device and includes web search, document chat, file generation, scheduled jobs, and memory. Supported providers range from Ollama and LM Studio to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini Pro. Cloud instances support multiple users, tenant isolation, admin controls, and white-labeling. Self-hosted data remains on the user's infrastructure, according to the maker. The free plan is available; Basic costs $50 a month and Pro costs $99 a month.
Claude
Claude is an AI assistant built by Anthropic to help users with work. It is available on web, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, through an API and as an extension. Claude can search the web, accept file uploads, create and edit spreadsheets, presentations, Word documents and PDFs, and analyze data using code execution. It can also create and share documents, dashboards, diagrams and interactive tools as artifacts; artifact storage is limited to 20 MB and text only. Connectors can link Claude with services including Asana, Linear, Notion, PayPal, Square, Plaid, Intercom, Zapier and Workato. Research, available on paid plans, runs multiple searches and returns answers with citations. Usage limits reset on a rolling five-hour window, and paid plans have additional weekly limits; usage also varies by conversation length, model and features. The Free plan includes limited usage and up to five projects. Pro costs $20 a month or $17 a year, billed $200 up front. Team plans add central billing and administration; Enterprise includes further access controls.