Pricing: Paid
Updated: September 2026
Anthropic's browser extension: reads the page you are on, then clicks, types and fills forms. Requires a paid Claude plan.
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Independent & reader-supported
Pricing & free tier — last checked
How we checked: read directly from the vendor's own pricing page — source
Listed as completely free, typed free, live on our free tools page and featured on our homepage — for a product Anthropic states requires a paid plan, linked to a domain that is not Anthropic's and is for sale.
| What | What we found | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Requires a paid Claude plan. Anthropic states it under the install button: "Available on all paid plans. Not on a paid plan? Upgrade now."Anthropic's pricing page lists Free at $0 for Claude itself, with Pro above it and Max from $100 per month. The extension is not part of the free tier, so there is no free path to this product. | Changed since last check |
| Where our link pointed | claudeforchrome.com — not an Anthropic domainThat site's own footer reads: "This page was created with Claude Code - Entertainment project only, no commercial use intended | Domain for sale". Repointed to claude.com/claude-in-chrome. | Changed since last check |
| Homepage placement | Was featured at rank 4 of 8. Removed.The strongest placement on the site was pointing at an unaffiliated for-sale domain and calling a subscription product free. | Changed since last check |
| What the extension does | Reads the page you are signed in to, then clicks, types and fills forms with your approval | Confirmed |
| Prompt injection risk | Acknowledged by Anthropic as an active, unsolved problem for browsing agentsRelevant to anyone weighing whether to let it act unattended on logged-in accounts. | Confirmed |
Editor verification notes
- We publish a warning about exactly this pattern on our Sora 2 listing — unaffiliated sites trading on a well-known AI product's name — and then did it ourselves, on the homepage. The corrected page names the domain so readers can recognise it.
Checked by the TheToolsVerse Verification Desk — by reading the vendor's own published pages, not by testing the product in an account. Claude in Chrome can change prices at any time without notice. The date above is the last time we looked; if it looks old, treat every figure here as unconfirmed and check Claude in Chrome directly before paying.
How we verify →Editor's Verdict
Official ReviewClaude for Chrome brings Anthropic's Claude into the browser as an extension that can summarize pages, draft emails, help manage calendar tasks and assist contextually across sites like Gmail. For anyone who already trusts Claude for writing and reasoning, having it one click away in the browser — with the current page as context — removes the copy-paste friction of switching to a separate chat tab. The summarization and drafting are the most immediately reliable uses. The bigger 'web automation' framing deserves honest caution: agentic browser actions (navigating and acting on pages on your behalf) are an emerging capability that can be powerful but also error-prone, and granting an extension the ability to act across your logged-in sites carries real security and privacy considerations you should weigh — review permissions and avoid letting it act unsupervised on sensitive accounts. As a contextual reading and writing assistant in the browser it's genuinely useful today; treat the automation features as promising but supervise them.
Reviewed by Sohail Akhtar
Lead Editor & Founder
Pros
What we like
- Brings Claude into the browser with the current page as context
- Reliable for page summarization and email or writing drafting
- Removes copy-paste friction of a separate chat tab
- Official Anthropic extension, installed from claude.com or the Chrome Web Store
Cons
Limitations
- Agentic web automation is emerging and can be error-prone
- Acting across logged-in sites raises security and privacy considerations
- Best supervised rather than left to act unattended on sensitive accounts
- Requires a paid Claude plan — there is no free-tier access to the extension
- Lookalike domains trade on this product's name; install only from claude.com or the Chrome Web Store
Pricing
Not free, and this listing said it was. Anthropic states the requirement directly beneath the install button on claude.com/claude-in-chrome: "Available on all paid plans. Not on a paid plan? Upgrade now." Their pricing page lists a Free tier at $0 for Claude itself, with Pro above it and Max from $100 per month, and the Chrome extension is not included in the free tier. So the cost of using this is the cost of a Claude subscription, and there is no free path to it. Checked 7 September 2026.
What is Claude in Chrome?
Claude in Chrome is Anthropic's official browser extension. It reads the page you are signed in to and can then click, type and fill forms, with you deciding what it is allowed to do. The useful part for most people is narrower than the automation framing suggests: summarising what is on screen and drafting text with the page as context, without copying anything into a separate tab. Two corrections to what this page used to say, both of which mattered. Anthropic states it under the install button — the extension is available on all paid plans, and there is no free-tier access. This listing was previously typed as a free tool, sat on our free tools page, and was titled "Free AI Browser Automation". Explore AI tools. A Claude subscription is the price of entry, starting at the Pro tier and running to Max at $100 per month and above. And our link went to the wrong place. It pointed at claudeforchrome.com, which is not an Anthropic domain. That site's own footer describes it as an entertainment project with no commercial use intended and says the domain is for sale. We had it linked from our homepage. If you are searching for this extension, install it from claude.com or the Chrome Web Store and treat lookalike domains carefully — popular AI product names attract them, and we should have caught this one rather than becoming an example of it Explore this option.
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On the extension itself: granting anything the ability to act across your logged-in sites is a real security decision, not a convenience setting. Explore AI tools. Prompt injection against browsing agents is an active and unsolved problem, Anthropic says so themselves, and the sensible posture is to supervise it rather than let it work unattended on accounts that matter Explore this option.
Associated Tags
claude ai browser, web task automation, page summarization ai, email calendar assistant, contextual browser ai
Key Features
Web navigation automation
Page summarization
Email drafting assistance
Calendar management
Contextual task execution
Real Use Cases
How professionals leverage Claude in Chrome - Anthropic's Browser Extension (Paid Plans Only)
Discover practical workflows and real-world scenarios where Claude in Chrome delivers key solutions.
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Summarizing long articles or docs in the browser
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Drafting and refining emails inside Gmail
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Getting contextual help on the page you're viewing
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Assisting with calendar and routine browser tasks
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Claude in Chrome free?
No. Anthropic states beneath the install button that it is available on all paid plans, and there is no free-tier access. This page previously said it was completely free, which was wrong.
Where should I install it from?
claude.com or the Chrome Web Store. Several unaffiliated domains use this product's name — one of them was the link on this page until we corrected it, and its own footer says the domain is for sale.
Can it automate web navigation?
Yes — it reads the page, clicks elements and fills forms, with you approving what it is allowed to do.
Is it safe to let it act on logged-in sites?
Supervise it. Prompt injection against browsing agents is an unsolved problem that Anthropic acknowledges, so treat unattended access to sensitive accounts as a decision rather than a default.