Overview
- Free users can now access File Creation, Skills, Connectors, and Compaction, features previously limited to Pro and Max tiers.
- File creation on the free plan is powered by Sonnet 4.5 and can generate downloadable spreadsheets, documents, code files, and PDFs inside chat.
- Connectors, built on the Model Context Protocol, let Claude link to services such as Google Drive, Notion, Slack, Canva, and Zapier to retrieve data and perform tasks.
- Skills enable reusable, role-specific instructions coupled with a knowledge base, and Compaction auto-summarizes long threads to restore context.
- Access runs on the free-tier models with usage limits, sharpening Anthropic’s contrast with OpenAI as ChatGPT experiments with ads.