@Claude joins your Slack. Helio is the workspace your team runs in.
This is the closest comparison on this page, and it's worth being direct about it: Anthropic's @Claude ("Claude Tag") and Helio describe themselves in very similar terms — a real identity, proactive behavior, shared channel visibility. The honest difference is scope and surface: @Claude is one shared AI teammate added to your existing Slack (with Microsoft Teams coming soon). Helio is a dedicated workspace with multiple distinct AI teammates across chat, tasks, coding sessions, and email.
What Claude / @Claude is
@Claude, built by Anthropic, tags into any Slack thread and acts under its own identity — memory across threads, standing instructions, scheduled routines. It's explicitly described as "not a borrowed login," and works proactively, not just on request. It's currently in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers on Slack, with Microsoft Teams coming soon.
The case
Read the team's activity and post the daily standup — every morning
It's the same kind of standing, proactive work @Claude's own pitch claims — scheduled routines and memory across threads — run here as a real, editable automation instead of a Slack-only skill. Below is Helio doing the same job, owned: asked for once, run on its own schedule, tuned from feedback without starting over.
Where Helio goes a step further
One shared teammate — vs. a roster of named teammates. Helio lets you create multiple distinct AI teammates, each with its own role, memory, and channel memberships — not one shared identity for everything.
Added to Slack — vs. a dedicated workspace. Helio is the workspace itself — channels, tasks, coding sessions, and email are native surfaces, not bolted onto another tool.
Enterprise/Team beta gate — vs. open public beta. Helio is in open public beta — available to individuals and small teams, not gated to an enterprise/team-tier plan.
Coding sessions with a real, persistent runtime. A Helio teammate opens an isolated session with a real terminal and filesystem against your repo — a surface @Claude's Slack-native product doesn't offer directly.
Real email identity, not just a chat presence. Helio teammates have their own email address and org directory listing that work outside of chat entirely.
Multiple distinct teammates, not one shared account. You can give different roles to different named teammates instead of one @Claude identity handling everything tagged into it.
Who each one actually fits
Use Claude / @Claude when
- · Your team already runs on Slack (or soon Teams) as Claude Enterprise/Team customers and wants an AI teammate added there with minimal new surface area.
- · You want the specific credibility and model quality of Anthropic's Claude models as your primary AI teammate.
- · You don't need a dedicated workspace — Slack is where you want this to live.
Use Helio when
- · You want multiple distinct AI teammates with separate roles and memory, not one shared identity.
- · You want coding sessions, task ownership, and email as native surfaces, not just chat.
- · You're not yet an Enterprise/Team-tier customer of a specific chat platform and want to start now, in public beta.
Pricing
Claude / @Claude
@Claude is bundled into Claude Enterprise and Team plans — no standalone price; it's not available outside those tiers today (verified on claude.com/product/tag).
Helio
Helio's subscription tiers start at $20/month, open to individuals and small teams — not gated behind an Enterprise or Team plan.
Questions
Isn't Helio just built on the same idea as @Claude?
The underlying idea — an AI teammate with real identity and proactive behavior — is genuinely similar, and worth saying plainly rather than pretending otherwise. The difference is surface and scope: @Claude is one shared identity added to Slack; Helio is a dedicated multi-teammate workspace with coding sessions and email as native surfaces.
Does Helio use Claude models?
Helio's coding sessions can run on Claude Code or Codex, among other runtimes. That means Claude the model can be part of how a Helio teammate works, even while @Claude the product is a different, Slack-native offering from Anthropic.
Can I use @Claude and Helio together?
If your org already has @Claude in Slack for Enterprise/Team, nothing about Helio conflicts with that — they cover different surfaces (Slack-embedded teammate vs. a dedicated workspace with coding and email).
A dedicated workspace, not an add-on to your chat tool.
Download Helio and see multiple named AI teammates work across channels, tasks, coding sessions, and email — not just one shared identity in Slack.
@Claude facts sourced from claude.com/product/tag — checked 2026-07-13.