Software priced as one number usually has a second number behind it. Here the second number goes to somebody else entirely, so it is worth being plain about which is which.
Everything the system does, on one machine that belongs to you. Your memory on your own disk, the whole library, and a person from here for as long as the setup takes. Yours alone at $799.
Up to four colleagues besides you, and it is $250 whether they write to it, talk to it, or build with it. We will tell you when you are getting close to the limit rather than after you pass it. More than four people is a company, and that tier starts at $5,000 a month, quoted once we understand the shape of it.
The reasoning runs through your own account, signed in once during setup. It bills to you directly at whatever Anthropic's rate is, under your terms rather than ours. We take no part of it and we do not mark it up, which also means we cannot quote it for you.
If you already own a Mac with Apple Silicon and enough memory, this line is zero. If you do not, it is a real cost and it is a one time one, so we would rather you knew now.
The models run on your own chip, which is the whole reason any of this is possible on a personal computer. It does not have to be the machine you work on. It has to be a machine that stays on.
Required, bought onceKeeping your memory on your own machine is the default and it costs nothing. Putting it somewhere else is a choice you can make, not a cost you inherit.
OptionalThere is no implementation fee and no onboarding charge. A person from here does the setup with you, and your questions get answered by someone who built it.
No separate chargeThere are few enough of these running that we know every one of them by name. At that size the price is not really for software. It is for the software and for us.
Every install gets a person. What you run into in the first month becomes next month's software. That is expensive to provide and it is the reason the early ones work at all.
Bringing the number down is the plan. The way it comes down is not a discount, it is the product getting good enough that a person from here is no longer part of it.
Everyone deserves a mind of their own. Not everyone can pay this, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The whole point of the work is to make that stop being true. See the tiers in full.
Ask whether re explaining your situation costs you more than the answers save you. Everything else follows from your answer to that.
If you open a chat window, do a thing, and close it, then the memory and the hands are solving a problem you do not have. A ChatGPT or Claude subscription is far better value and we would say so.
When the deliverable matters more than the description, when you are the only place the whole picture lives, and when where your information sits has stopped being a preference.
$799 a month for one machine, which is everything the system does, your memory on your own disk and a person from here for as long as the setup takes. Each colleague you add is $250 a month, up to four besides you.
Two, and one of them is not paid to us. You pay Anthropic directly for the reasoning through your own Claude account, and you need a Mac with Apple Silicon to run it on. There is no setup fee, no implementation charge, and keeping your memory on your own machine costs nothing.
Whatever Anthropic charges you, at their rate and under your terms. We take no part of it and we do not mark it up, which is also the reason we cannot quote it: it is your account and your relationship, and we never see the bill.
Only if you do not already have a Mac with Apple Silicon and 16 GB of memory, 24 GB or more to run it comfortably, plus about 25 GB free. It does not have to be the machine you work on. It has to be a machine that stays on.
More than four people is a company rather than a machine with colleagues on it. That tier starts at $5,000 a month and is quoted once we understand the shape of it, because no two companies are the same size.
It is high because it is early. There are few enough running that we know every one by name, and at that size the price is for the software and for us: the setup, the machine it lands on, and the work of shaping it around what you do. Bringing it down is the plan, and the way it comes down is the software needing less of us.