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Ecosystem map

Anthropic ships Claude as a dozen separate products with a dozen separate docs sites. The relationships between them are rarely written down anywhere. This is that picture.

01

Where you use Claude

The apps and integrations you actually open. Each is a separate product with its own feature set.

02

What you configure

The composable layer: context, tools, permissions and delegation. Mostly shared across surfaces.

03

What you build on

The developer platform and the SDKs, plus the clouds that resell the same models.

04

What runs underneath

Model families. Every surface above ultimately routes to one of these.

05

What it costs

The plans and billing models. Which one you are on decides what the layers above are even available.

06

What governs it

Safety frameworks, usage policy and data handling. These apply on every surface, on every plan.

Hover or focus any entry to trace its documented relationships across layers.

How to read it

Layer 01

Where you use Claude

The apps and integrations you actually open. Each is a separate product with its own feature set.

Layer 02

What you configure

The composable layer: context, tools, permissions and delegation. Mostly shared across surfaces.

Layer 03

What you build on

The developer platform and the SDKs, plus the clouds that resell the same models.

Layer 04

What runs underneath

Model families. Every surface above ultimately routes to one of these.

Layer 05

What it costs

The plans and billing models. Which one you are on decides what the layers above are even available.

Layer 06

What governs it

Safety frameworks, usage policy and data handling. These apply on every surface, on every plan.

Two things the map deliberately does not claim

  • The layers are a mental model, not an architecture diagram. Anthropic does not publish one, and several pieces genuinely sit across two layers.
  • Connections are drawn from relationships recorded on each page, so a missing line means “not yet documented here”, not “unrelated”.

Documented, not on the map

These entries are covered in the reference but sit below the level of detail the map shows.

Start typing to search every entity in the reference.