Claude (Anthropic)

What is Claude?

Claude is the AI assistant from Anthropic — one of the leading AI safety research companies. Claude is known for its strong reasoning, factual accuracy, and long context window.

Products

• Claude.ai: Standalone AI assistant (free and Pro)
• Claude API: For developers and enterprises
• Claude Search: Built-in search with live web retrieval

Market position

• 20M+ monthly users (Q1 2026 estimate)
• The fastest-growing AI assistant in the B2B and developer segment
• Especially popular for complex analysis and writing tasks

Crawler

ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s web crawler for Claude’s live search feature.

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

What Claude prioritizes

Claude is especially sensitive to:

• Factual accuracy: Claude is trained for precision
• Author authority: Strong EEAT is critical
• Source quality: Claude primarily references authoritative sources
• Content structure: Well-structured, logical content

Optimization actions

1. ClaudeBot allowed in robots.txt
2. llms.txt with a site description
3. Article schema with clear author attribution
4. FAQPage schema
5. Fact-based, accurate content

FAQ

Is Claude better than ChatGPT? It depends on the task. Claude is generally stronger on reasoning and long context. ChatGPT is stronger on reach and integrations. Both are relevant AI visibility channels.

Is Claude popular? Growing quickly. Especially among technology-focused users, the B2B segment, and developers. Multi-language support is fully implemented.