Anthropic brings Claude Code to the web

Anthropic on Monday launched a web app for its viral AI coding assistant, Claude Codewhich allows developers to create and manage several AI coding agents from their browser.

Cloud Code for Web is now rolling out to customers on Anthropic’s $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100 and $200-per-month Max plans. Pro and Max users can access Cloud Code on the web by navigating to claude.ai (the same website for Anthropic’s consumer chatbot) and clicking the “Code” tab, or through the Claude iOS app.

The launch marks Anthropic’s latest effort to evolve Cloud Code beyond a Command-line interface (CLI) tool Developers who access from a terminal. By putting cloud code on the web, Anthropic hopes developers will spin up AI coding agents in more places.

It’s increasingly competitive for tech companies trying to differentiate their AI coding tools. While Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot once dominated the space, Cursor, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic now have their own highly effective AI coding tools—many of them already Available on the web. That said, Code Claude is arguably one of the most popular. Anthropic’s flagship coding tool has grown 10x in users since its wide launch in May, and the product now accounts for more than $500 million in company revenue on an annual basis.

Anthropologie product manager Cat Wu told TechCrunch in an interview that she attributes a large part of Cloud Code’s success to the company’s AI models, which have become a A favorite among developers In recent years, however, Wu says the Claude Code team deliberately tries to “sprinkle some fun” into the product where they can.

Wu said that Anthropic will continue to deploy cloud code in more places, but Terminal will likely remain the home base for their AI coding products.

“As we look forward, one of our key focuses is to ensure that the CLI product is the most intuitive and customizable way for you to use Coding Agent,” Wu said. “But we continue to put cloud code everywhere, helping developers meet wherever they are. Web and mobile is a big step in that direction.”

Anthropic claims that 90% of the cloud code product itself is written by the company’s AI model. Wu, who used to be an engineer, says that he rarely sits down at the keyboard to write R code and mostly just reviews the output of clod code.

Early AI coding tools worked like a self-contained tool, with lines of code written by developers. But the agentic generation of AI coding tools — including Cloud Code — allows developers to create agents that act autonomously. This shift has forced millions of software engineers to act like managers of AI coding assistants in their daily work

The change was not welcomed by every developer. A recent study found that Some engineers were actually slow when using AI coding tools such as the cursor. The researchers suggested that one reason might be that the engineers in the study spent most of their time requesting and waiting for AI tools to be finished instead of working on other problems. AI coding tools also struggle on large, complex code bases, so engineers have spent a lot of time working through incorrect feedback from AI models.

Nevertheless, companies like Anthropic are moving forward to develop AI coding agents. Anthropologie CEO Dario Amodei predicted a few months ago that AI should soon be there 90% of software engineers write code. While this may be true within Anthropic, the transition to the broader economy may take longer.