Used For

• +**Your React components from ChatGPT work locally but crash in production** → Claude reads your entire codebase context and catches the environment issues you missed
• +**You're spending 4 hours manually reading research reports** → Upload 350 pages of text, get summaries and insights in under 3 seconds
• +**Stack Overflow copy-paste debugging is eating your day** → Claude generates working code that actually matches your project patterns
• +Extended thinking mode for complex workflows - shows you step-by-step reasoning instead of just guessing
• +Processes images with text context - upload charts, medical scans, or screenshots and get detailed analysis

Best For

• >Your ChatGPT keeps generating code that looks right but breaks everything
• >You need to analyze 100-page documents without losing your mind
• >Debugging sessions that normally take 2 hours are killing your productivity

Not For

• -Teams wanting self-hosted AI - it's cloud-only with no on-premise options
• -Heavy video or audio work - it's text and images only, Gemini beats it on multimedia
• -Anyone expecting it to be free forever - the useful stuff requires paid plans that add up fast

Pairs With

• *VS Code (where you actually edit the code Claude generates instead of copy-pasting from browser)
• *GitHub Actions (to run the tests on Claude's code before it breaks production)
• *Slack (where your team celebrates when Claude actually fixes a bug in 20 minutes)
• *Amazon Bedrock (if you're enterprise and need Claude through AWS instead of direct)
• *PostgreSQL (to store the context and chat history that Claude forgets between sessions)
• *Notion (where you paste Claude's document summaries so the team can actually find them later)

The Catch

• !Free tier cuts you off mid-conversation after 20-30 long prompts, forcing you to upgrade right when you're getting productive
• !That 200k token context sounds huge but it starts forgetting details after 100k tokens in practice
• !API costs hit $50-200/month surprises on heavy coding tasks - those free credits disappear in 1-2 weeks

Bottom Line

The AI that won't completely butcher your code like ChatGPT does.