API Pay-As-You-Go
Free
Billed per token via Anthropic API
- CLI Installation
- Free via npm (`@anthropic-ai/claude-code`)
- Model
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet with hybrid reasoning
- Tool integration
- Native git, bash, grep, and file editing
Code · Vendor site 2026-10-04
Claude Code is an agentic command-line tool from Anthropic that lives inside your terminal. It understands your entire codebase, searches across files, writes and tests code, edits git commits, and executes bash commands autonomously powered by Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
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API Pay-As-You-Go
Free
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Yes. Claude Code has an ongoing free plan. Open-access CLI tool; costs are billed directly to your Anthropic API account based on token consumption.
Claude Code is listed as free. No paid plan with a published price was found.
API or developer access is mentioned. Invokes the Anthropic Messages API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to interact with external developer tools.