Key Highlights:
- Claude can now finally remember points from your previous chats and use their references in new conversations.
- The memory feature works independently of the recently launched skills function.
- Free users will have to wait longer to get the memory, but ChatGPT and Gemini already offer the same in the free tier.
Anthropic added a new memory feature in Claude last month, enabling users to reference older chats for new conversations. This helped to quickly resume an old topic, without having to remind the chatbot any context. However, this was only available to Team and Enterprise users. The company has now expanded the memory function to Max users, and will soon be available in the Pro tier for as low as $17. This is one the biggest updates in Claude as it transforms the way we use it with its support for long-term contextual understanding.
Claude Memory: What’s The Deal?
Although Claude is among the best chatbots in reasoning and coding compared to its peers, it lacks the ability of using information from previous conversation in a new chat. This feature was recently introduced in the enterprise level plans, but individual paying subscribers and free users still lacked it.
If you are a regular user of Claude, or any other chatbot, then you understand the importance of context-based answers. For example, if you are an analyst who uses Claude to break down data in a specific pattern, it can be frustrating to instruct Claude each time you start a new task. Not only its time consuming, it also consumes unnecessary tokens from your daily limits.
Memory is now available for Max users and rolling out to Pro over the next two weeks.
— Claude (@claudeai) October 23, 2025
With project-scoped memory, each project maintains its own focused context. https://t.co/IPofp58c0A
ChatGPT and Gemini introduced support for memory based conversations months ago, and it has become the basic part of a chatbot even in the free tier. However, Anthropic has been late to this party, as its memory feature is still in a rollout phase, where the Pro subscription, which is the most affordable paid tier will take a few more days to get it. The wait for free users is even longer, with no definitive timeline.
How to use Claude Memory
You can make Claude remember something by simply using a text prompt like “Remember to add values in both USD and INR while generating monthly sales report”, after which the chatbot will follow this instruction for all future conversations. Another way to access this is from the Settings, where you can get a summary of all memories in one place.
The easiest and effective method is to use regular prompts. Once you add a memory to your Claude account, it will sync across all other devices using the same account. Enterprise users can also share certain memories when they are under the same team plan.
It is worth noting that Claude will create a separate memory for each new conversation. Even if two chats are similar, it cannot merge mutliple memories. It will treat each new chat as a different memory to prevent context-based mix-match between two or more chats.
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What Took Anthropic So Long?
Anthropic is on a roll when it comes to developing and releasing new tools for scientists and reasearchers. The company recently introduced new life sciences tools which will help scientists to automate the path towards discovering new studies in the medical field. It also added a new skills feature where users can instruct Claude to follow an SOP for a certain task. However, you still had to provide detailed instructions to the chatbot, even if you are performing the same task for the 100th time.
Context-based conversations are more useful in lifestyle conversations, something which ChatGPT and Gemini are popular for. However, Claude is famous dominantly among coders, enthusiasts, and a niche audience, who do not use it for general conversations. It is possible that due to such reasons, memory has not been on Anthropic’s priority list compared to shipping actual new features. The company has not shared any official reason to delay such a basic feature.
