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Era or Claude?

Short answerWriting, analysis and code: Claude. Getting work done in the business’s records: Era — running on your Claude subscription.

Claude is a very strong AI chat for writing, analysis and code, with projects and memory across conversations, and Claude Code comes with the paid plans. Era is a workspace on top of it: connect your Claude subscription and Era works with it inside your customers, orders and bookings.

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Side by side

The things a small business uses every day. Every row about Claude was read on Claude’s own site on 18 October 2026; rows we could not check are left out.

Era and Claude side by side
Era
Claude
Works inside the business’s recordsClaude: from apps you connect and what you tell it
Yes
Partly
Memory across conversationsClaude: memory across conversations, on every plan
Yes
Yes
Answers your customers on WhatsApp
Yes
No
Customer records and sales pipeline
Yes
No
Online booking and staff calendars
Yes
No
Online store, stock and orders
Yes
No
Pricing
Prices soon; runs on your Claude subscription
Free + Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise; Claude Code on paid plans

Claude is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Era. Products change quickly — if a row is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

What it looks like in Era

This job has its own screen in Era, in the same workspace as customer cards, the calendar, the inbox and the AI. The screen below is Era itself, with sample data.

Sample screen · illustrative data

Starting Era on your Claude subscription

A few minutes’ work. You keep your Claude account; Era uses the same subscription for your business’s work.

  1. 1Open Era and connect your Claude subscription through Claude Code.
  2. 2Bring your customer list and channels into Era.
  3. 3If you like, connect Claude to Era so the chat can reach your business data.
Example run · sample data

When Claude is the better pick

For personal tasks, writing, analysis and code, Claude on its own is enough.

When Era is the better pick

In Era the AI knows the business’s records and works within your permissions; messages to customers, payments or deletions wait for your OK. Connect Claude to Era and you reach your business data from Claude too.

Era and Claude — questions

For personal tasks, writing, analysis and code, Claude on its own is enough. In Era the AI knows the business’s records and works within your permissions; messages to customers, payments or deletions wait for your OK. Connect Claude to Era and you reach your business data from Claude too.

Yes. Connect your Claude account through Claude Code and Era picks the right model for the job. Claude’s own terms apply to the usage.

Yes. Era works with your supported Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Grok sources or your own API key. It orchestrates work rather than providing a model service.

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One workspace for your business.

Open Era with your own AI subscription or API key. Turn on what you need and add the rest later — the same workspace on Windows and the web.

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