Anthropic Claude today
Starts at
$20/mo
- Contract
- Enterprise is annual only; Pro and Team can be monthly or annual
- Free plan
- Free plan with chat on web, desktop and mobile, web search, file creation, memory...
Cheaper than Anthropic Claude (2)
Compared by starting price, same currency.
| Alternative | Starts at | Against Anthropic Claude | States that Anthropic Claude doesn't | Contract | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hugging FacePRO, read Oct 29, 2026 |
$9/moPRO plan, starting price | $11 lessstarting price | Fine-tuning support | Enterprise plan has annual commitments | Free account with unlimited public models, datasets and applications; paid... |
 Mistral AIPro, read Oct 29, 2026 |
$14.99/moPro plan, starting price | $5.01 lessstarting price | Fine-tuning support, Image and audio input, VPC or on-prem deployment, MCP server | Not found | Free plan with limited access to Vibe (chat, search, creation, coding) and... |
Flat tiers (4)
Priced in tiers, where Anthropic Claude charges per seat.
| Alternative | Starts at | Against Anthropic Claude | States that Anthropic Claude doesn't | Contract | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 UpstageCommitment tier Explore, read Oct 29, 2026 |
$100/moCommitment tier Explore plan, starting price | $80 morestarting price | Tool and function calling, VPC or on-prem deployment | Not found | Studio agents include 10 free runs with no credit card; File Search beta is... |
 Cohereread Oct 29, 2026 |
$3/hour per instanceUsage price | Not comparable | Fine-tuning support, VPC or on-prem deployment | Model Vault supports monthly or annual commitments | Time-limited: Free Trial API key, rate limited, not for production or commercial use |
 Google Geminiread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.25/1M tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Tool and function calling, Image and audio input | Not found | Free tier gives limited access to certain models with free input and output... |
 Perplexity APIread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.0005/invocationUsage price | Not comparable | Tool and function calling, Image and audio input, MCP server | Not found | Not found |
Other options (11)
No computed reason to switch, listed for completeness.
| Alternative | Starts at | Against Anthropic Claude | States that Anthropic Claude doesn't | Contract | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAIBusiness Standard seat, read Oct 29, 2026 | $25/userBusiness Standard seat plan, starting price | Not comparable | Image and audio input, SOC 2 compliance, SOC 2 | Not found | A free version of ChatGPT is available to everyone (consumer plan); details... |
 AI21 Labsread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.20/1M input tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Fine-tuning support, Zero data retention option, VPC or on-prem deployment | Not found | Trial: $10 credits for 7 days, no credit card needed |
 Amazon Bedrockread Oct 29, 2026 |
$2/1,000 queriesUsage price | Not comparable | Fine-tuning support, Image and audio input, SOC 2 compliance, Zero data retention option and 2 more | Not found | Not found |
 Anyscaleread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.0135/hourUsage price | Not comparable | Fine-tuning support, VPC or on-prem deployment | Pay-as-you-go is month-to-month; prepaid committed services are... | Trial: $100 in Anyscale credits on signup (one-time credit, not time-limited as stated) |
 Fireworks AIread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.008/1M input tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Fine-tuning support, Image and audio input, SOC 2 compliance, Zero data retention option and 2 more | Not found | Trial: Muse Glimmer 30B SFT free via UI and Serverless Training API until 11/30, no... |
 Gemini Enterprise Agent Platformread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.085/vCPU-hourUsage price | Not comparable | Fine-tuning support, Image and audio input | Not found | A free usage tier renews monthly per account for each Agent resource (50... |
 Nebiusread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.74/GPU-hourUsage price | Not comparable | SOC 2 compliance, SOC 2 | Usage commitments available for long-term workloads | Not found |
 OpenRouterread Oct 29, 2026 |
$5.50/unitUsage price | Not comparable | Tool and function calling, Image and audio input, SOC 2 compliance, Zero data retention option and 1 more | No minimums or lock-in on Standard and Business | Free plan with 25+ free models and 4 free providers; free models capped at... |
 Replicateread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.000025/secondUsage price | Not comparable | Fine-tuning support, MCP server | Not found | Not found |
 Together AIread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.15/1M input tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Fine-tuning support, Image and audio input, Zero data retention option, VPC or on-prem deployment | Term continues until use stops or Company terminates; you may not... | Not found |
 xAI Grokread Oct 29, 2026 |
$2/1M input tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Image and audio input, SOC 2 compliance, Zero data retention option, SOC 2 | Not found | Free Console account with a Playground to test Grok models; API usage itself... |
No price found, or contact sales (7)
- Alibaba Qwenself serve
- Databricks Mosaic AIhybrid
- DeepSeekcontact the vendor
- Meta Llamahybrid
- Microsoft Azure OpenAI Servicehybrid
- SiliconFlowhybrid
- Snowflake Cortex AIhybrid
Questions
What is the cheapest alternative to Anthropic Claude?
Hugging Face, at $9/mo by starting price, $11 less than Anthropic Claude. Computed from each vendor's published prices.
Is there a free alternative to Anthropic Claude?
Yes. 8 large language models have a free plan, including Hugging Face, Mistral AI, Upstage, OpenAI, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
How this page is made
Alternatives come from Anthropic Claude's own category, Large language models. Prices come from each vendor's pricing page and are compared at the same volume where both can be computed, and by starting price where neither can. "States that Anthropic Claude doesn't" lists what we found on the other vendor's site and didn't find on Anthropic Claude's, which doesn't prove Anthropic Claude lacks it. How prices are read.