How to Get the Most Out of Claude Pro as Anthropic Expands Access to the 100k Token Model

Anthropic has launched its long-awaited paid subscription service Claude Pro to offer wider use of its 100K token conversational AI assistant Platique.

For advanced users, the San Francisco-based company released a service on September 7 for $20 per month. The service aims to improve productivity and expand the use of the Claude language model.

With the Claude Pro paid plan, subscribers can get five times more usage than with Anthropic's free tier. This allows users to have long conversations with Claude, while sending many more messages in an 8-hour period.

Anthropic, which was founded by former OpenAI employees in 2021 after years of holding back after raising $124 million, is on a mission to create secure artificial general intelligence (AGI). It is noted that the founders were guided by concerns about the safety and ethics of advanced artificial intelligence systems.

Claude's simplest user interface is comparable to ChatGPT as a simple chat interface. But each of Claude's conversations can handle over 25,000 words of context. While ChatGPT (Model G Pt4) is limited to approximately 2,500 words. With a larger context window, officially 100,000 tokens, it gives users the ability to submit large batches of written information to Claude for analysis and feedback.

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For example, the user summarizes Claude's research work. He, in turn, can ask him more detailed questions about it and receive from him a summary of critical sections no less than a paragraph long. Deeper research tasks can be accomplished with Claude Pro thanks to its advanced usage restrictions. In essence, people can have a “conversation” with the information being analyzed. Claude will save tens of thousands of words of text in each research task.

Usage limits will vary depending on factors such as the length of messages and the size of file attachments. Anthropic says the average conversation on its platform lasts about 200 sentences. For those, Claude Pro would allow approximately 100 messages every 8 hours.

A subscription provides priority access to Claude during high traffic periods and early entry to new features.

To maximize usage, Anthropic recommends that Claude Pro subscribers:

You can start a new conversation on each new topic, for example: “Claude, take on this new research project that I need to complete,” rather than talking endlessly about one thing. This hyphen is limited by the amount of context that Claude needs to “re-read” each time.

Post multiple questions in one message instead of posting each question separately. What are the most important conclusions of this article? What research methods were used? This helps Claude "re-read" but limits his need to do so.

Do not re-download archived files, as Claude preserves the context in case users do not start a new conversation.

The key to the findings is that Claude Pro's restrictions are based on the use of tokens and do not restrict messages. ChatGPT, on a paid basis, can limit the number of messages per hour, but not the length of the message. Ensemblec has a more detailed "fair use" policy that is limited to the total volume that is submitted to LLM rather than the number of requests.

According to Anthropic, the restrictions were meant to make Claude available for many users to try while providing increased capacity to paying advanced users.

In July 2022, the company launched Claude as an AI assistant focused on innocuous and helpful conversations. Available in the US and UK, the Claude Pro model.