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Vestra vs Claude Code

Vestra gives your business a chief you name, who hires and runs a team of AI teammates that work together in one office, and any of them can run on Claude Code. Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding agent for one developer at a time: it works in your terminal, editor or browser, and its memory and schedules stay with your own account.

Claude Code

  • A coding agent for one developer. It reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and opens pull requests, in your terminal, editor, desktop app or browser.
  • Included with paid Claude plans. From Pro at $20 a month, with usage shared with chat in five-hour and weekly windows.
  • Claude models only. Fable, Opus, Sonnet or Haiku. When it runs agents in parallel, every worker is a Claude session.
  • Memory and schedules stay yours alone. Auto memory stays on your machine, and scheduled tasks belong to your account, aren’t shared with teammates and act as you.

Vestra

  • A chief that runs the whole team. Name your chief, hire teammates in a sentence, give each a whole job, and watch them all at work in an office you can walk around.
  • Claude Code as a teammate, not alone. Run any teammate on Claude Code, Codex or Vestra’s own engine, mixed in one office, sharing one memory and the same rules.
  • From $19, on every engine. Lite $19, Pro $97, Max $197, Ultra $497 a month. One credit is one cent on every engine, and you start with 1,000 free credits.
  • Calls, email, limits and receipts. Your chief has its own number and email address and connects 2,000+ apps. Cap spending per task and per day, approve anything big, and see what every piece of work cost.
The Vestra office from above: team desks on coloured rugs, a café, two glass meeting rooms, a row of phone booths, a lounge and a library, with the front door at the bottom.

Can you see what your whole team is doing?

Yes. Your Vestra office is a map you can walk around. Every person, chief and teammate has a desk, and each teammate’s tag shows the engine it runs on, Claude Code included. A Right now feed says in one line what each one is doing, live. Walk over or tap any desk to see its work, watch its computer and take over.[1]

Claude Code shows your own sessions. Agent view, in research preview, lists the sessions you’ve sent to the background, their state and which ones need your input.[2]

One look shows every person and every agent, on every engine, and who is waiting on whom.

Vestra's four plans side by side: Lite at $19 a month for up to 3 teammates and 2,000 credits, Pro at $97 for 20 teammates and 10,000 credits, Max at $197 for 50 teammates and 20,000 credits, and Ultra at $497 for 150 teammates and 50,000 credits.

What does a whole team cost, not one coding agent?

Vestra starts at $19 a month for a chief and up to 3 teammates. Pro is $97 for 20 teammates, Max $197 for 50 and Ultra $497 for 150. One credit is one cent, the same on every engine, unused credits roll over, and every new office starts with 1,000 free credits.[3]

Claude Code comes with paid Claude plans: Pro at $20 a month, Max at $100 and Ultra at $200, with usage shared with chat. Team seats are $25 a month each, or $125 for Premium, for 2 to 150 people.[4]

One plan pays for your chief and every teammate, whichever engine each one runs on.

Today's receipts in Vestra showing what four teammates each spent on their jobs, 140 credits in total, next to a daily cap of 400 credits, a per task cap of 80 credits, and a first email to a new lead waiting for your yes.

Can it call, email and stay inside your limits?

Yes. Vestra’s chief has its own phone number and email address. Phone calls start on Pro.[5] You cap spending per task and per day, money, deleting and first contact wait for your yes, and every piece of work has a receipt, on whichever engine it ran.[6]

Claude Code doesn’t describe phone calls or an email address of its own in its docs. What it does through your connectors, like Slack messages or tickets, uses your linked accounts and appears as you.[7] Team and Enterprise admins can set spend limits on usage credits, and the docs don’t describe a per-task cap on a subscription.[8]

Your team can reach people for you, and you always know what it spent.

Hand your first job to your chief.

Start with one real job you want off your plate. See how your chief and its teammates handle it, then put a teammate on Claude Code where the work is code.

  1. Sign up and start with 1,000 free credits.
  2. Name your chief and tell it about your work.
  3. Hire your first teammate in a sentence, pick its engine, and connect the tools it needs.
  4. Review the finished work, and set the limits and approvals you want.

Vestra vs Claude Code, in detail

The rows follow the four reasons above: a chief that runs the whole team, with Claude Code as one of its engines; from $19 on every engine; calls, email and the apps you use; and limits, approvals and receipts. After those come the areas both products cover, and how each one approaches them. Claude Code does more in a few places: it runs in your terminal, your editor and apps for Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android, and it goes deeper on code, with hooks, worktrees, GitHub Actions and code review. Vestra is built to run work across your whole business, with Claude Code inside it.

How the products compare: Vestra and Claude Code
What mattersVestraClaude Code
Who runs the workYou name your chief and tell it what you need in a sentence. It asks what a good manager would, then writes a teammate card: the job, goals you can check, the apps it uses, its first routines, its engine and what it must ask you about first. You read it, change anything and say yes. From then on your chief hands out the work, makes sure every result is checked before it reaches you, and brings you only real decisions. Everyone on your team gets a chief of their own, and chiefs ask each other for answers, so nobody chases anybody.[9][10][11]You run Claude Code yourself, in one session or several. Subagents take side tasks inside a session, agent view lets you send sessions to the background and check on them, and Projects (public beta on Pro and Max) run parallel threads for longer work. Agent teams, where a lead session assigns work to other sessions, are experimental and off by default. In every approach the workers are Claude sessions, run by one person.[2][12]
See your whole teamYour office is a map you can walk around, like a game. Every person, chief and teammate has a desk, and each teammate’s tag shows the engine it runs on, so you can see at a glance that code is written on Claude Code and reviewed on Codex. A Right now feed says in one line what each one is doing, live, and an orange tag shows who is waiting on whom. Tap any desk to see its work, watch its computer live or take over. Nothing moves on the map unless real work is happening.[1][13]Agent view, in research preview, shows your background sessions on one screen, with their state and which ones need your input. The desktop app runs several sessions side by side. Both show your own sessions.[2]
PlansLite $19 a month for up to 3 teammates and 2,000 credits. Pro $97 for 20 teammates, 10,000 credits and phone calls. Max $197 for 50 teammates and 20,000 credits. Ultra $497 for 150 teammates and 50,000 credits. Billed yearly, they are $17, $87, $177 and $447 a month. One credit is one cent, the same on every engine and for model time, the computer, searches and calls, and every plan includes your chief and the whole office.[3][13]Included in every paid Claude plan and shares its usage with chat: Pro $20 a month ($17 billed yearly), Max $100 and Ultra $200. Team seats are $25 a month ($20 yearly), or $125 for Premium ($100 yearly), for 2 to 150 seats. Enterprise is $20 a seat billed yearly plus usage at API rates, from 20 seats. The free plan doesn’t include Claude Code, and usage resets in five-hour and weekly windows.[4]
Getting startedSign up directly, on any plan, with nothing to install. Every new office starts with 1,000 free credits, enough to hand over real work before you pick a plan. Your chief suggests your first teammates and an engine for each, you connect a few tools, and work starts the same day. Your team’s memory fills from your tools’ history on day one, so it already knows your customers.[3][14][15]Install it with one command in your terminal, or use the desktop app, the web at claude.ai/code, VS Code or JetBrains. Most surfaces need a paid Claude plan or a Claude Console account, and you start it inside a project folder.[16]
Where you use itTalk to your chief in the Vestra app on the web and the desktop app for Mac, in Slack (by direct message or a mention in any channel), in Telegram, or by email: forward anything, or copy it in on a thread. Call its number from the car, or walk up to its desk in the office and just talk. It’s the same chief everywhere, so a conversation started in Slack can finish in the app, and replying “1” takes the suggested option on any decision.[5][9]In the terminal, VS Code and Cursor, JetBrains, the desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, the web, and the Claude app for iPhone and Android. Mention @Claude in a Slack channel to turn a bug report into a pull request. Channels can push events from Telegram, Discord or iMessage into a session.[17][16]
Calls and emailYour chief has its own phone number and email address, so it calls and writes from its own line and inbox, not yours. It writes first, replies and follows up until there’s an answer. Before a call it reads what the team knows about the person, and afterwards the notes and next steps go where they belong. The first call or email to anyone new waits for your yes. Phone calls start on Pro.[5][3][18]Claude Code’s docs don’t describe phone calls or an email address of its own. Work it does through your connectors, such as Slack messages or tickets, uses your linked accounts and appears as you.[7]
App connectionsMore than 2,000 apps connect in a click, including Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, Notion, Shopify and Stripe, and engineers’ teammates work in GitHub and Linear. Connect an app once for the whole team, then choose which teammates may use it. Logins stay sealed: agents use them without ever seeing the password, and you can take access back in one tap. Where there’s no connector, a teammate uses the website on its own computer.[18][6]Connects tools through MCP, such as Google Drive, Jira and Slack, and works directly with git, GitHub and GitLab. Hooks run your own commands before or after its actions, and plugins bundle skills, subagents and hooks.[16]
Model and engine choiceMore than a model: pick the engine that does each teammate’s work, Vestra’s own, Claude Code or Codex. If your engineers already work with Claude Code, their teammates can run on it too. Your chief suggests one and says why, or picks job by job. Mix them in one team, so code written on Claude Code is reviewed on Codex with fresh eyes. Switch any time without losing the teammate’s job, skills, memory or kit, and every engine works under the same approvals, limits and receipts.[13][5]Runs on Anthropic’s Claude models, Fable, Opus, Sonnet and Haiku, switched with /model. You can host them on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud or Microsoft Foundry, but the docs name no models from other makers, and every parallel worker is a Claude session. Other tools join only as MCP servers.[19][2]
Its own cloud computerYour team works on a cloud computer with a real browser, files and a terminal. It uses any website the way you do, including ones with no connector, like supplier portals, booking pages and government forms. Watch it live, take over with one click when a site needs you, and hand it back to carry on where you left off. It has 8 GB on Lite and Pro, 16 GB on Max and 32 GB on Ultra, and agents can also run in your own cloud or on your premises.[18][3][13]Runs on your own machine with your files and terminal, or in Anthropic-managed cloud sessions that keep working when your laptop is closed. A Chrome integration lets it debug live web apps.[16]
ApprovalsSpending over your limit, contacting someone new and deleting anything always come to you, on every engine, and no setting turns that off. Everything else you tune teammate by teammate and task by task: ask first, suggest, or act and tell you afterwards. New teammates start by asking, and get more freedom only when you move the setting. Each decision arrives in one line with the facts and a suggestion, so you can answer from your lock screen.[6][9]Permission modes set what asks first: Manual asks on first use of each tool, Accept edits allows file edits, Plan only reads, and Auto has a classifier check actions instead of you. Allow, ask and deny rules can be shared in the repo, and admins can lock them with managed settings.[20]
Spending limits and receiptsCap any single task and the whole day, up to $100 a day. Anything unusually big, over 50 credits by default, waits for your okay with the cost shown. When a cap is reached, work stops at a sensible point and says what’s left. Every receipt splits the cost into model time, actions and computer time, and shows which teammate spent it on which job and engine. Unused credits roll over, and you can top up any time.[6][3]/usage shows your plan usage and what used it. On Team and Enterprise, admins set spend limits on usage credits for the organization, a group or a member, with a spend report updated daily. Anthropic puts the average enterprise cost at about $13 per developer per active day, or $150 to $250 a month. The docs don’t describe a per-task cap on a subscription.[8]
MemoryOne shared wiki for the whole team, people and agents on every engine: your people, customers, decisions, numbers and what went wrong last time, with a source for every line. It fills from your tools’ history on day one, then from every task, email and correction. Open any line’s source or edit any page, and the fix reaches every teammate’s next piece of work: correct one teammate once, and they all learn. Export it all as Markdown any time.[15][5]CLAUDE.md files hold instructions you write, and a project CLAUDE.md is shared with your team through git. Auto memory saves what Claude learns from your corrections, but it stays on your machine and isn’t shared with teammates, other machines or cloud sessions.[21]
Schedules and proactive workEach teammate owns a goal and does three kinds of work: one-off asks, routines that run on a schedule (a market note every Monday at 9) or the moment something happens (a rival changing its prices), and the goal it holds for months. When it spots something worth doing, it brings you a proposal to approve, and on quiet days it says nothing. Your chief sends a morning brief at the time and place you choose.[10][9][10]Cloud scheduled tasks, in research preview, run on a schedule, an API call or a GitHub event, even when your computer is off, up to 100 scheduled runs an hour. They belong to your individual account, aren’t shared with teammates and act as you.[7]
SkillsReady-made skills for Sales, Bookkeeping, Content, Customer care and Research, added to any teammate in a click. Custom skills are built around your own playbooks, data and standards, like your code style or release checklist, usually during onboarding, and read like a short plain-language checklist you can edit when your business changes.[10][13]Skills package repeatable workflows your team can share, like /review-pr or /deploy-staging, and plugins bundle skills, subagents and hooks.[16]
ResearchHire a Research teammate in a sentence to watch markets, rivals and people, with sources. Every fact is checked against its source before it counts as done, findings land in your memory wiki with a source for every line, and the rest of your team turns them into the outreach, the deck or the price change.[10][15][11]Maps large codebases with agentic search and can search and fetch the web. Dynamic workflows run many subagents and cross-check their findings, for jobs like a codebase-wide audit or cross-checked research.[17][2]

Frequently asked questions

Is Vestra a good Claude Code alternative for teams?

A chief that runs the whole team. Your chief hires teammates in a sentence and checks their work before it reaches you.[9] Here’s what an AI chief of staff actually does.[22]

Claude Code as a teammate, not alone. Run any teammate on Claude Code, Codex or Vestra’s own engine, in one office with one shared memory.[13]

From $19. Vestra plans start at $19 a month, with the same credit price on every engine.[3]

Calls, email, limits and receipts. Your chief has its own number and email address, and connects to 2,000+ apps.[18] Daily and per-task caps, your yes on money, and every credit itemized.[6]

When does Claude Code on its own make more sense?

If you’re a developer who wants an agent in your own terminal and editor, working on files on your machine, Claude Code goes deep: hooks, worktrees, GitHub Actions, the Agent SDK and agents in parallel.[16] It also comes with a Claude plan you may already pay for, and Code Review is generally available on Team and Enterprise.[17] If you want a team that runs work across your business, with Claude Code as one teammate’s engine next to the others, its own phone and email, spending caps and receipts, Vestra is the better fit, from $19 a month.

What is Claude Code?

Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding tool. It reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and works with your development tools, in the terminal, IDEs, a desktop app and the browser.[16] It’s included in every paid Claude plan.[4]

How much do Vestra and Claude Code cost?

Vestra starts at $19 a month. Lite is $19 for up to 3 teammates, Pro $97 for 20, Max $197 for 50 and Ultra $497 for 150. Bigger plans also add credits, a bigger computer and, from Pro, phone calls. One credit is one cent on every engine, unused credits roll over, and you can top up any time.[3]

Claude Code comes with Claude Pro at $20 a month ($17 billed yearly), Max at $100 and Ultra at $200, sharing usage with chat. Team seats cost $25 a month, or $125 for Premium, for 2 to 150 people, and Enterprise is $20 a seat yearly plus usage at API rates.[4]

Can I run Claude Code inside Vestra?

Yes. In Vestra you pick the engine for each teammate: Vestra’s own, Claude Code or Codex. A teammate that builds your app can run on Claude Code while another reviews its work on Codex, and every chief runs on Vestra’s own. Switch any time without losing the teammate’s job, skills or memory, and every engine works under the same approvals, limits and receipts.[13]

Does Vestra ask before it spends or sends?

Yes. Spending over your limit, contacting someone new and deleting anything always come to you. You cap spending per task and per day, up to $100 a day, and every piece of work has a receipt.[6] Claude Code asks before edits and commands depending on its permission mode, and in Auto mode a classifier checks actions instead of you.[20]

Can Vestra run work on a schedule?

Yes. Routines run on a schedule, or the moment something happens in a connected tool.[10] Your chief also sends you a morning brief.[9]

Can I see and fix what Vestra remembers?

Yes. Vestra keeps one wiki of what your whole team knows, with a source for every line, and you can open, check and edit it.[15] Claude Code reads the CLAUDE.md files you write, and its auto memory stays on your own machine.[21]

Can I move my Claude Code setup to Vestra?

Write down the job, your CLAUDE.md standards and the skills you rely on, then describe the same job to your chief in a sentence and pick Claude Code as the teammate’s engine.[10] Reconnect the apps it needs, like GitHub,[18] and start with one familiar task so you can check the result against how you already work.

How do I get started with Vestra?

Sign up, name your chief and tell it about your work. It suggests your first teammates, you connect a few tools, and work starts the same day. Every new office starts with 1,000 free credits, and plans start at $19 a month.[14]

A whole team that finishes the work, from $19.

Claude Code is a strong coding agent that works for one developer. Vestra gives your business a chief that hires and runs the whole team, with Claude Code, Codex or Vestra’s own engine under each teammate, plus calls, email, limits and receipts, from $19 a month.

Get started with Vestra