Anthropic vs H Company

Anthropic — Foundation Models · Private · $965B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  H Company — Application · Private · $220M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

TechCrunch's launch coverage of Runner H, directly benchmarking against Anthropic's Computer Use, Mistral, and Meta.

3 of 16 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorAutomate a repetitive process

3 of 16 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, model inference and workflow automation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent, agent platform and model API.

Ludbee product records

Sourced competitor — “The company also claims that it works: It says that its compact model outperforms Anthropic's "Computer Use" by 29% (based on WebVoyager benchmarks) as well as models from Mistral and Meta.”

techcrunch.com · checked 2026-09-19

Automate a repetitive process — Rivals on this job — Connect the apps a team already uses and let software carry a routine task end to end — approvals, handoffs, and data moving between systems.

Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edge

Aligned comparison

FieldAnthropicH Company
Size$965B valuation$220M raised different basis
Employees2,500—
Founded20212023 2 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, Model APIAI agent, Agent platform, Model API
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAParis, France

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationModel inferenceWorkflow automation

Not verified for H Company · 13

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewData analysisDocument extractionEmail assistanceGuardrails and safetyPresentation generationKnowledge retrievalSummarizationText generationThreat detection and responseSearch answers

Recorded for Anthropic. H Company’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

H Company has no capability Anthropic lacks, among the 3 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Hand-checked pairing

Anthropic

AI agent

Claude CodeAI agent

Coding agent that works on a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and a desktop app.

Claude CoworkAI agent

Agentic task app in which Claude works asynchronously across a user's files and tools toward a stated goal, checked in on from desktop, web or phone.

Claude in ChromeAI agent

Browser extension that lets Claude act inside Chrome on the user's behalf — reading pages, clicking, typing and filling forms to work through multi-step web tasks without approving each step, with the user keeping control of what it may do.

Agent platform

Claude Managed AgentsAgent platform

Hosted API offering a pre-built configurable agent harness with managed sandboxes and persistent sessions for long-running asynchronous agent tasks, billed separately from token usage.

Model API

Claude APIModel API

Hosted API for the Claude models, billed per token.

H Company

AI agent

HoloDesktop CLIAI agent

Open-source CLI client that launches and drives H Agent locally, giving the agent mouse/keyboard control across the whole desktop operating system (not just a browser).

HoloTabAI agent

Chrome extension that runs an agent inside the browser to fill forms and work through sites.

Runner HAI agent

Agent that completes multi-step tasks in a web browser on the user's behalf.

Agent platform

Computer-use AgentsAgent platform

Managed agents that operate computer interfaces (web, desktop, mobile) programmatically via API.

Model API

Holo Models APIModel API

Multimodal API (Holo3-1-35B-A3B open-source, Holo3-122B-A10B flagship) for text/image/document processing with computer-use capabilities, billed per token.

No counterpart

Anthropic sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for H Company yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

ClaudeApplication

Assistant for chat, document analysis and coding, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps.

Claude DesignApplication

Lets users collaborate with Claude to create on-brand visual work (decks, prototypes, wireframes, marketing collateral) with design-system import and Claude Code integration via /design-sync.

Claude ScienceApplication

Desktop application for scientific research that runs analyses, searches scientific databases and traces work from data wrangling through to publication.

Claude SecurityApplication

Application that scans codebases for high-severity vulnerabilities, validates findings by adversarial verification and recommends patches for review, with a companion Claude Code plugin.

Claude for Microsoft 365Application

Claude working inside Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook with context carried across the documents — preserving templates and house styles and showing every edit as tracked changes, highlighted cells or draft emails.

Claude for SlackApplication

Claude tagged as @Claude inside Slack threads and channels: it reads thread context and replies in real time, analyses conversations, pulls data, drafts content, monitors channels, triages alerts and runs standing instructions without leaving Slack.

Developer tool

Claude Agent SDKDeveloper tool

Python and TypeScript library that runs the same agent loop, tools and context management that power Claude Code, so developers can embed the loop in their own process rather than calling the API directly.