Claude Cowork
The work behind your best work
Claude Cowork completes tasks you can steer from anywhere. Give it a goal, and it works across your files and tools. You come back to polished work for your review.
Works with a paid plan. Rolling out on web, mobile (beta). Not on a paid plan? Upgrade now
Switch to Claude Cowork when you want to hand off a task. Find it next to Chat.
Claude Cowork takes on your tasks
Works directly in folders and tools you choose, and runs your task to deliver work for review. No need to copy from a chat or paste into files.
Say what, not how
Tell Claude what you need, not how. It opens browsers for web tasks and takes over your screen only when it has to. You’re always in control.
See the work as it happens
Claude shows each step: the files it opens, tools it uses, and choices it makes. Follow along from anywhere, and redirect it if you need to.
Your work follows you
Claude Cowork runs on web, desktop, and mobile and is the same Claude, wherever you work. Start at your desk, pick it up on your phone.
Claude works when you don’t
Close your laptop, it keeps going. Schedule a task for any cadence, and it runs unattended. You come back to your deck, spreadsheet, or research.
More than one thing at a time
Big projects are split into chunks that run together. While it drafts, it researches and organizes at the same time. You review polished work.
A built-in browser for Cowork
When a task requires opening a site, reading a page, or filling a form, Claude opens a browser in the Cowork side panel instead of yours while you keep working.
- No installation needed.
- Separate from your own browser, logins, and tabs.
- Sign in once for every session, or import cookies to say signed in to your browser (Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on macOS; Firefox on Windows and Linux).
Available in the Cowork desktop app on Pro, Max, and Team plans. Enterprise admins manage it in Organization settings → Cowork.
Prompt
Every Monday morning, build last week's marketing readout. Pull web views and signups from Amplitude, and the newsletter, social, and webinar numbers from Marketing/Channel-tracker in Drive. Compare everything to the week before. Slide one: company name and the week. Slide two: awareness metrics with anything that moved more than 10% flagged. Slide three: consideration metrics, same flags. Note any trend worth watching and anything you couldn't pull. Save to Marketing/Weekly in Drive.
Connectors
Schedule recurring reports, ready for review
Schedule a report once and get it daily, weekly, or monthly. Claude pulls the numbers, compares them to the period before, and builds the deck, so Monday starts with the readout instead of the assembly.
Reconcile data in spreadsheets
Hand off recurring close work. Point Claude at the folder of regional exports and budget files, and come back to a working spreadsheet with variances flagged and a note on what didn't reconcile.
Get a first-pass review of every contract at once
Hand off first-pass contract review. Point Claude at the folder of inbound agreements and your playbook, and come back to a memo per contract with every departure cited to the clause, and the gaps your playbook doesn't cover marked for you.
Analyze every objection you’ve heard this quarter, in one place
Hand off the read-back. Point Claude at a quarter of call notes and come back to a memo on where every open deal stands, what the customer said was blocking it, and which objections keep coming up, each one quoted from the note it came from.
Plugins bundle your tools, knowledge, and workflows into a single install so Claude shows up as a specialist from day one.
Skills
Domain knowledge and best practices baked in
Connectors
Claude connects to the tools you already use
Sub-agents
Specialized agents that handle specific tasks end-to-end
Claude Cowork for marketing
See how Anthropic uses Claude Cowork to gather weekly reviews on a schedule.
Claude Cowork for sales
See how Anthropic uses Claude Cowork to research any account before the first call.
Claude Cowork for legal teams
See how Anthropic uses Claude Cowork to answer questions on past decisions.
Claude Cowork takes real actions on your files and in connected tools. Enterprise admins can configure permissions to customize security according to their needs.
You decide what Claude can access
You choose the folders and tools. Claude can't reach anything else. Deleting anything needs your approval.
Claude asks before acting
Enable permissions settings, so Claude shows its plan and waits for your approval before anything significant. Redirect, or stop anytime.
For Teams & Enterprise
Admins set access by team, manage spend limits, and control tool permissions by department. Activity streams to your SIEM through OpenTelemetry.
Runs where your data lives
Use a Claude account or your own cloud provider: Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Foundry.
“In most AI chat tools, you'd query Slack, then query Databricks, then manually stitch the results together. Cowork can do all of that in a single pass. That's a fundamentally different kind of capability.”
“Cowork helps teams do work at a scale that was hard to justify before. The human role becomes validation, refinement, and decision-making. Not repetitive rework.”
“Our biggest operational pain point wasn't access to information; it was that it was scattered across many tools. Cowork hasn't changed what we do but it has changed how we do it.”
“Now I can write the idea down in Cowork, and Claude will go investigate, build me a document, and I have all the information I need.”
“Cowork gives us the ability to schedule and run tasks even when people are offline, taking busywork off their plates so they can focus on actually being marketers.”
Choose a plan, then start using Claude Cowork.
Pro
Claude Cowork is included in your Pro plan. Perfect for quick tasks like organizing a folder or pulling together a short report.
$17
Per month with annual subscription discount ($200 billed up front). $20 if billed monthly. Claude Cowork consumes limits faster than Chat. For heavy usage, consider upgrading.
Max 5x
Claude Cowork is included in your Max plan. Great value for everyday use on longer, more complex tasks.
$100
Per month
Max 20x
Even more Claude Cowork included in your Max plan. Best for power users who hand off work throughout the day.
$200
Per month
Usage limits (opens in new tab) apply. Prices shown don’t include applicable tax. Price and plans are subject to change at Anthropic's discretion.
Team
Claude Cowork and the Slack connector are included in your Team plan standard and premium seats. Includes self-serve seat management and extra usage of the API rates.
$20
Per seat / month. For teams of 2 to 150.
Enterprise
Claude Cowork is included in your Enterprise plan. Admin controls, usage analytics, Analytics API and OpenTelemetry observability available.
Usage limits (opens in new tab) apply. Prices shown don’t include applicable tax. Price and plans are subject to change at Anthropic's discretion.
Cowork is where you hand Claude real work. It runs on desktop, with web and mobile in beta. Claude works in the files and tools you choose and completes multi-step tasks from start to finish. You define the goal. Claude figures out how to get there.
In regular chat, Claude responds to your messages but can't access your files directly. In Cowork, Claude has permission to read, edit, and create files in folders you specify—so it can actually complete tasks rather than just describe how to do them.
Claude Code is built for software engineering — writing, debugging, and shipping code. It's available in the terminal, in the desktop app, in IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains, and via Claude Tag.
Cowork is built for non-coding knowledge work — research, analysis, document creation, and other multi-step tasks. It uses the same agentic approach as Claude Code.
Yes. Start a task from your phone, and Claude keeps working in the cloud even when your laptop is closed. Check in, redirect, or review the result from anywhere. Available in Pro, Max, and Team plans automatically. Enterprise plans can opt in.
Computer use lets Claude interact directly with your screen to open apps, navigate your browser, or run tools. Claude reaches for your connectors and integrations first, falls back to your browser when needed, and only uses your screen as a last resort. This matters because using a direct integration is faster and more precise than navigating through the screen.
When Claude does interact with your screen, it asks permission before accessing each application. You see what it's doing and can stop it at any step. Computer use is in research preview for both Cowork and Claude Code.
Cowork can understand the following file types:
- Documents and text: Word documents (.docx, .doc), PDF files (.pdf), Plain text (.txt), Markdown (.md), HTML (.html), JSON (.json), CSV (.csv), TSV (.tsv)
- Spreadsheets: Excel files (.xlsx, .xls, .xlsm)
- Presentations: PowerPoint files (.pptx, .ppt)
- Images: Common formats like .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .svg, .webp
- Data and config: YAML (.yaml, .yml), XML (.xml), TOML (.toml)
- Notebooks: Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb)
- Code files: Pretty much any programming language: Python (.py), JavaScript (.js), TypeScript (.ts), React (.jsx, .tsx), Java, C/C++, Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, SQL, shell scripts, etc.
You can also use Connectors to view additional files.
Yes, agentic tasks consume more capacity than regular chat. Claude coordinates multiple sub-agents and tool calls to complete complex work.
Yes. Admins can toggle Claude Cowork off for their organization anytime in Admin Settings (opens in new tab). Manage Cowork access across teams with role-based access controls.
No. Cowork runs on web and mobile in beta.
The desktop app adds what web and mobile can't reach: the folders and applications on your own computer. If that's where your work lives, start there.
Download the desktop app and hand off your first task in minutes.