Compared

Maison is not an alternativeto Claude. It runs on it.

The reasoning inside Maison happens through your own Claude account. You sign in once during setup and it bills to you by Anthropic, under your terms rather than ours. So the question is not which of the two to pick. It is what Maison adds around the one you already have.

Your own account, your own terms Billed by Anthropic, never marked up We are not in the middle of it
How it actually fits together

One of them is the thinking. The other is everything around it.

A model that reasons well is necessary and it is not sufficient. What is missing is a memory that persists, a machine of its own to act on, and a place for the work to live. Maison is that part.

What Claude does

The reasoning

You sign in once during setup, the same way you would sign in to a code editor, and approve it. From that point your Maison thinks using your own account. The conversation bills to you directly at whatever Anthropic's rate is. We take no part of it and we do not mark it up.

What Maison adds

Memory, hands, and a home

A continuous memory on your own disk, the ability to go and do the work rather than describe it, a voice you can talk to from the car, project rooms for the people you work with, and a machine that belongs to you rather than an account that does not.

What you get that the account alone does not give you

The parts that are not the model.

It keeps

One memory that outlives the model

  • Every conversation, person, decision and the reason behind it
  • Held in a database on your own disk, in files you can read
  • It survives restarts, upgrades, and swapping the model underneath
  • The same memory from your voice, your phone, a browser or your desk

The memory sits beside the model rather than inside it. That is the reason a better model arriving costs you nothing.

It acts

A machine of its own to work on

  • Reads and writes files, sends the mail you have authorized, runs and ships code
  • Splits a hard job across many workers and returns the conclusion
  • Wakes on a schedule, follows up, and keeps going overnight
  • Speech in and speech out, generated on your machine, working with the network off

There is no public address. It is reachable from your phone over your own private network and nothing is exposed.

The honest part

If the account is enough for you, keep the account.

Maison costs $799 a month for the machine, plus $250 for each person you add, on top of the Claude account you are already paying for. That is a real amount of money and it is not worth it for everybody.

Stay where you are if

The work fits in a conversation

If you open it, do a thing, and close it, then the memory and the hands are solving a problem you do not have. The account is the better value and we would say so.

It is worth it when

The context is the expensive part

When re-explaining costs more than the answer saves, when the deliverable matters more than the description, and when where your information sits has stopped being a preference.

It is early, and the price says so. Bringing it down is the plan, and the way it comes down is the software needing less of us. See what the price is doing, or how it compares to ChatGPT.

Questions

Questions about the two of them.

Is Maison an alternative to Claude?

No. Maison runs on Claude. The reasoning inside it happens through your own Claude account, so the question is not which of the two to choose. It is what Maison adds around the one you already have.

Do I need my own Claude account to use Maison?

Yes, and it is required. You sign in once during setup and approve it, the same way you would sign in to a code editor. From that point your Maison thinks using your own account.

Do you mark up the Claude usage?

No. Your conversations bill to your account, under your terms with Anthropic, at whatever their rate is. We take no part of it and we never sit in the middle of it.

What does Maison add on top of Claude?

A continuous memory on your own disk that outlives any single conversation, a machine of its own to act on so the work gets done rather than described, speech in and out generated locally, project rooms for the people you work with, and hardware that belongs to you.

What happens when a better model comes out?

Nothing you have to do. The memory sits beside the model rather than inside it, so it survives changing the model underneath. You keep the relationship and the reasoning gets better.

If I already pay for Claude, is Maison worth the extra?

Not for everybody, and we would rather say so. If you open it, do a thing and close it, the memory and the hands are solving a problem you do not have. It is worth it when re-explaining costs more than the answer saves, and when the deliverable matters more than the description.

Bring the account you already have.

Tell us what you would hand it first, and we will show you the same one we use every day.