Anthropic vs Yandex

Anthropic — Foundation Models · Private · $965B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Claude Agent SDK and SourceCraft Code Assistant do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; Yandex's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

10 of 16 capabilitiesShared product type

10 of 16 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, agentic coding, code generation and 7 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and developer tool.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldAnthropicYandex
Size$965B valuationnot disclosed
Employees2,50036,991 Yandex has 15× more
Founded20211997 24 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, Model APIAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 10

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCode reviewData analysisDocument extractionModel inferenceKnowledge retrievalText generationSearch answers

Not verified for Yandex · 6

Email assistanceGuardrails and safetyPresentation generationSummarizationThreat detection and responseWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for Anthropic · 8

Customer supportImage generationModel hostingModel trainingSpeech to textText to speechTranslationVoice agent

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

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Anthropic

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.

Yandex

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

No counterpart

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

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.

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

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.