Claude in Chrome

Claude in Chrome is Anthropic's extension for the Chrome browser. It opens Claude in a side panel that can see the page you're on and act on it: clicking, typing, moving between pages and filling in forms, using the logins you already have. Ask it to pull last month's numbers from your analytics dashboard into a summary, sort a messy Google Drive, log this week's sales calls in Salesforce, or collect invoice totals from three supplier portals. It's most useful for websites that have no other way to connect to Claude, like old admin systems and vendor portals.

It came out of beta on 26 August 2026. Since August the side panel runs a full Claude Cowork session, so your skills, plugins and connectors work there and the conversation carries on in the Claude desktop and phone apps. Cowork can also use it as its browser for bigger jobs, and Claude Code can use it to test a website you're building. By default it works through a task without asking at every step, with a separate safety check reviewing each action before it happens. You can switch to a stricter mode where you allow it one site at a time. Pick it over an AI browser like Comet or Dia if you want to keep Chrome and already pay for Claude.

The catch: it only runs on desktop Chrome, not other Chromium browsers like Edge or Brave, and not on phones. A web page can hide instructions meant to trick it. Anthropic's tests show its defences now stop almost all of these attacks, but it says the risk isn't zero, so keep it away from banking, health records and passwords. It still stops and asks before purchases and other one-way actions. Browser tasks also use up your Claude limits faster than chat.

• Marketers
• Operations teams
• Sales teams
• Founders
• Web developers

Claude subscribers who spend their day in web apps and want the repetitive clicking done for them.

• Acts on the page

  Reads the page, clicks links, types, moves between pages and fills in forms, using the accounts you're already signed in to.

• Works across tabs

  Drag tabs into Claude's tab group and it can work across all of them at once.

• Cowork in the side panel

  Your skills, plugins and connectors are there, and the session continues on desktop or mobile.

• Background tasks

  Start a job and get on with something else while Claude finishes it.

• Safety checks

  A separate check reviews each action for risk and hidden instructions. Purchases and other one-way actions always wait for you.

• Works with Claude Code

  Claude Code can open your site in Chrome to test and fix what it builds.

Prices in USD unless noted, checked 3 November 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm on their site before you buy.

Ways Claude in Chrome can slot into your week.

1. 1

   Weekly numbers without exports

   Have it open your ad and analytics dashboards, copy the key numbers and write a short summary for the team.

2. 2

   Log sales calls

   Ask it to match this week's meetings to contacts in your CRM and draft the activity notes for you to approve.

3. 3

   Clean up the inbox

   Let it find newsletters and promo emails in Gmail and show you a list to delete in one go.

4. 4

   Competitor pricing check

   Send it to five competitor sites to collect prices and features, then have Cowork turn it into a comparison deck.

It adds Claude to the Chrome browser you already use, so there's nothing to switch. Use connectors where an app has one, since they're faster and safer. Use Claude in Chrome for the websites that don't.

The closest alternatives to Claude in Chrome in the library, best rated first.

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  Claude Cowork

  4.1

  Best for weekly reports built from several sources

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  Google Chrome

  4.1

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  ChatGPT Work

  4.0

  Best for sorting inbox and calendar admin across connected apps

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  Brave

  3.9

  Best for summarising pages, PDFs and Google Docs privately

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