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Works out of the box
No MCP servers to host or computer-use sandboxes to babysit. Connect an app with a click and a droid has governed access — read, write, and gated actions.
All comparisonsDroid vs Claude
Claude thinks it through. A droid gets it done.
Claude is one of the sharpest models there is — and your droid routes to it for the hard reasoning. The difference is reach: Claude lives in a chat window and your editor, while a droid takes that thinking into your apps, channels, and phone, and keeps at it on a schedule.
Joins calls — voice & video
Works ~3,000 apps
Runs unattended on a schedule
Governed, with approvals
The short version
The honest short version.
Claude is one of the best models going for reasoning, writing and code — and your droid routes to it for exactly that. So the gap isn't intelligence; it's reach: Claude lives in its apps and your editor and waits for you, while a droid takes that thinking into Slack, email and the phone, and runs it on a schedule. Most teams want both — Claude to think and build, a droid to run the work.
Droid
Claude
Frontier reasoning, writing & code
Joins calls — voice, phone & video
Takes action across ~3,000 apps
via MCP you host
Runs unattended on a schedule
Persistent memory across runs
Projects, per user
Approvals + credential vault
At a glance — the full table is just below
Side by side
Droid and Claude, line by line.
The same job, two tools. Here's how they differ where it actually counts.
| Droid | Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An AI worker you hire for a role. It joins calls, works your apps, and ships deliverables. | A frontier AI assistant for reasoning, writing, and coding — with developer tools to take actions. |
| Where it lives | In Slack, Teams, email, SMS and on a real phone number — the surfaces your team already uses. | In the Claude apps and your editor or terminal (Claude Code). You go there and drive it. |
| Acting on your tools | Managed OAuth to ~3,000 apps out of the box, with read / write / destructive actions and per-tool policies. | Acts through MCP servers and connectors you wire up, or computer-use (beta) — capable, but you assemble and run it. |
| Voice, phone & video | Live voice calls, its own phone number, and joins Zoom / Meet / Teams calls with screen-share. | Voice mode in the mobile app. No phone number, doesn't join your meetings. |
| Coding | Writes and runs code to finish a job end-to-end across your apps, with approvals on anything risky. | Claude Code is a best-in-class coding agent for developers in the terminal and IDE. Genuinely great. |
| Memory | Typed, persistent memory — contacts, knowledge, past work — shared across every channel and run. | Projects keep context and files, but memory is project- and conversation-scoped, per user. |
| Scheduled & triggered work | Durable tasks that run on a schedule or fire on an event — a new email, a webhook — laptop closed. | You start each session. Nothing runs unattended in the background. |
| Team & sharing | One workspace, shared memory and automations. Everyone @mentions the same droids. | Team and Enterprise plans with shared Projects, but it's per-user assistance, not a shared worker. |
| Approvals & governance | Sensitive actions (send mail, push code, move money) wait for approval. Credentials never reach the model. | A famously safety-minded model, but governing which tools and actions it can take is on you to build. |
| Pricing shape | Workspace credits, shared across the whole team. No per-seat charge. | Per-seat subscription (Pro / Team / Enterprise), plus API usage for anything you build. |
The difference
What only a droid does.
Claude can take actions — through tools you assemble. These are the things a droid does as a finished product, the moment you hire it.
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Ships the work, not an artifact
It doesn't leave a draft in a panel for you to copy out. It sends the email, updates the CRM, files the record, opens the PR.
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Lives in your channels
Slack, Teams, email, SMS, a phone number. Your team and your customers reach it where they already are — not in a separate app or IDE.
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Answers the phone, joins the call
Real telephony plus voice and video with screen-share. Claude's voice mode talks back; a droid actually takes and makes the calls.
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Runs on a schedule
Hand it a recurring job once. It wakes itself up, does the rounds, and only pulls you in when something's off. Claude waits for you to start.
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Governed by default
Side-effecting actions wait for approval, and credentials live in a vault the model never sees — without you assembling the guardrails.
Credit where it's due
Where Claude shines.
Plainly: Claude is superb, and your droid relies on it for the hard thinking. Credit where it's due.
- Frontier reasoning and long-context analysis — excellent on dense, multi-document problems.
- Writing many people rate the best of the major models — clear, careful, and well-judged.
- Claude Code: a top-tier coding agent for developers, right in the terminal and your IDE.
- MCP — the open tool-connection standard Anthropic created, which much of the ecosystem (us included) now builds on.
- Artifacts and Projects for iterating on docs and code with context that sticks.
Common questions
The questions we hear most.
Isn't Claude already agentic with Claude Code and computer use?
Genuinely, yes — Claude Code is a top-tier coding agent and computer-use (beta) can take real actions. The difference is packaging. Those are developer tools you run and supervise inside a session. A droid is a hosted worker that lives in your channels, has governed OAuth to ~3,000 apps, runs unattended on a schedule, and gates risky actions for approval — without you assembling, hosting, or babysitting the pieces.
Does a droid use Claude under the hood?
Yes. Anthropic's Claude is one of the frontier models a droid routes to — alongside OpenAI and Google Gemini — picked per task by cost, latency, and quality. The product is everything around the model: the voice and channels, the app access, the memory, the schedules, and the approval gates.
What about MCP?
We're fans — MCP is the open standard Anthropic created, and a droid builds on it. The difference is that a droid adds managed OAuth, governance, persistent memory, schedules, and real channels on top, so you don't have to wire up and host servers yourself.
Can a droid replace Claude?
They're built for different jobs. Claude is a superb assistant for thinking, writing, and coding; a droid is a worker that takes action across your tools and channels. Plenty of teams use Claude to think and build, and a droid to run the work.
Is my data used to train models?
No. Your conversations, files, and integration data aren't used to train shared models. Our providers operate under no-training, zero-retention terms for Droid traffic. See /security for the full posture.
From brilliant answers to finished work.
Starter credits, no card. Walk a droid through the job on a call and watch it ship the first one before you hang up.