# Anthropic turned Claude in Slack into Claude Tag. Is it the same as Maito? And what if your team doesn't only use Claude? Source: https://maito.app/compare/maito-vs-claude-tag Date: 2026-10-14 Author: Dmitry Dubovetzky Maito vs Claude Tag: both are AI teammates your team tags in Slack channels. Claude Tag runs on Claude, needs a Claude Team or Enterprise plan, and bills by usage. Maito works with the AI provider you choose, in Slack and in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Codex, for $149 per workspace per month plus that provider's usage. ## Is Claude Tag the same as Maito? **No, but they are close. Both are AI teammates your team tags in Slack. Claude Tag runs only on Claude and bills by usage. Maito works with the AI provider and model you choose, outside Slack too, for $149 per workspace per month plus that provider's usage.** Both let a whole channel work with one agent, remember the team, open pull requests, and run scheduled work. Claude Tag is set up once by a Claude organization Owner and a Slack admin and billed to your Claude organization by usage. Maito is set up by connecting an AI provider, Slack, and your tools, and anyone in an invited channel can ask. Maito's included $20 in cloud credits covers coding sandboxes and web search; beyond that you buy credits. ## What is Claude Tag? **Claude Tag is Anthropic's way to give Claude work inside Slack, available in beta on Claude Team and Enterprise plans.** You tag @Claude in a channel, and it works on the task with your organization's tools and shared context. Everyone in the channel works with the same Claude, so anyone can steer it or pick up its work. It keeps memory per channel and per workspace, opens pull requests through the Claude GitHub App, and can schedule its own follow-ups. Claude Tag replaced Claude in Slack on August 3, 2026. [What is Claude Tag](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15594475-what-is-claude-tag). ## And what is Maito? **Maito is a shared AI teammate that isn't tied to one AI vendor: it runs on the provider you choose and works in Slack and in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse.** Anyone in an invited Slack channel can ask it for work, without a Maito account, and others can join the thread to steer it. It handles research, reports, and follow-ups in your connected tools, and code changes in a sandbox per task, with your checks, browser QA, and a pull request. [How Maito works](/homepage). ## How do Maito and Claude Tag compare at a glance? **Maito and Claude Tag overlap on shared work, memory, coding, and scheduled tasks. They differ in which models you can use, where your team works with them, and how you pay.** | | Maito | Claude Tag | | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | What it is | An AI teammate for your company | Claude working inside Slack | | Where you use it | Slack, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse | Slack | | Models | Yes: The AI provider and model you choose | No: Claude only | | Working together | Yes: The whole team works with one agent, in any thread | Yes: Everyone in a channel works with the same Claude | | Business tasks | Yes: Research, reports, follow-ups, and work in your connected tools | Yes: Work with your organization's tools | | Code changes | Yes: Any coding task, in its own sandbox, with a pull request and checks | Yes: Commits and pull requests through the Claude GitHub App | | Company knowledge | Yes: Remembers facts and saves workflows as skills | Yes: Memory per channel and per workspace | | Recurring work | Yes: Loops on a schedule, from a webhook, or on request | Yes: Scheduled follow-ups and standing tasks | | Price | $149 per workspace per month, unlimited people | A Claude Team or Enterprise plan, plus usage | ## Which AI models can Maito and Claude Tag use? **Claude Tag runs on Claude. Maito runs on the AI provider and model you choose, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, xAI, or OpenRouter.** You can pick one model for everyday work and a different provider and model for coding tasks. If your team already pays for ChatGPT or another provider, Maito uses that account. [Maito FAQ](/faq). ## Where can your team work with Maito and Claude Tag? **Claude Tag works in Slack. Maito works in Slack and in the AI assistants your team already uses: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse.** Someone who lives in ChatGPT, an engineer in Cursor, and a support lead in Slack all reach the same Maito, with the same company knowledge. A rule one of them asks it to save for the team is there for the others. Claude Tag's DMs use each person's own Claude account, while channel work uses the organization's agent identity. [Claude Tag agent identity](https://claude.com/docs/claude-tag/concepts/agent-identity). ## What do Maito and Claude Tag do with a business task? **Maito and Claude Tag both do business tasks in Slack with your organization's tools and what they remember about your company. With Maito, you can run that work on a cheaper model than you use for code.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Irene:** @Maito Northstar sent back our MSA with edits. Compare it with our standard terms and flag anything outside our fallback positions. > > **Maito:** Seven changes. Five are within our fallbacks. Two aren't: liability capped at 6 months of fees, where our floor is 12, and a 15-day payment term, where ours is 30. > Redline with comments is in Drive, and a short reply to their counsel is drafted in the thread. ## And what do Maito and Claude Tag do when a customer reports a bug? **Claude Tag works on the bug in a shared sandbox session and opens a pull request as the Claude GitHub App. Maito runs each fix in its own sandbox with your checks and a browser recording, and drafts the customer reply in the same thread.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Hugo:** @Maito a customer says the search box returns nothing when they type an accented name like "José". Ticket #8150. > > **Maito:** Reproduced. Search lowercases the query but doesn't strip accents, while the index does, so "José" never matches. Recording attached. > PR #1104 normalizes accents on both sides and adds tests for Spanish, French, and German names. Checks pass. > Reply to the customer is drafted below. Each Maito coding task runs in its own sandbox, branch, and checkout, so several can run at once without touching the same files. ## What do Maito and Claude Tag cost? **Maito costs $149 per workspace per month with unlimited people, plus your AI provider's usage and any cloud credits beyond the included $20. Claude Tag needs a Claude Team or Enterprise plan, and its channel work is billed to your organization by usage.** **Maito: $149 per month + provider usage** - One workspace, unlimited people - $20 in included credits for coding sandboxes and web search - Your AI provider bills its usage at its own rates **Claude Tag: Claude plan + usage** - Needs a Claude Team or Enterprise plan - Channel work is billed to your organization by usage - Spending caps per organization and per channel A Standard Claude Team seat costs $20 a month on annual billing, and not everyone who tags Claude needs one. Both bills grow with the work: Claude Tag's on your Claude organization, within the caps your admins set, and Maito's on your chosen provider's account, at that provider's rates. [Claude pricing](https://claude.com/pricing). [What is Claude Tag](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15594475-what-is-claude-tag). ## When is Claude Tag enough? **Claude Tag is enough when your company is already on a Claude Team or Enterprise plan, works only in Slack, and wants to use only Claude.** ## So should you choose Maito or Claude Tag? **Choose Maito for one AI teammate that works with the AI provider you choose, in Slack and your team's AI assistants, at one workspace price. Choose Claude Tag if your company is standardized on Claude and works in Slack.** **Choose Maito if:** - You want to choose your AI provider and model - Your team works in Slack, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, or Claude - You want any coding task done in its own sandbox, with QA and evidence - You want one workspace price with unlimited people **Choose Claude Tag if:** - Your company already has a Claude Team or Enterprise plan - You only want to use Claude - Your team works only in Slack Run one real task in both, with Maito on the model you'd actually pick for it. Compare the result, the steps it took, and the usage on each bill.