COWORK

Claude Code is Anthropic's agent for software engineering; Claude Cowork is the same agent loop pointed at documents, spreadsheets, and research. Both come with every paid Claude plan from $17/month. Here is how to pick, with a verified September 2026 pricing table.

Anthropic dropped a batch of updates across Claude Code and Cowork - remote control from your phone, scheduled tasks, plugin repos, auto memory, and stats showing 4% of GitHub public commits now come from Claude Code.

Claude Cowork brings Claude Code's agent loop to non-coding work. Updated for September 2026: Cowork is now merging into one Claude on Pro and Max, runs in the cloud, and is included in every paid plan from $17/month.