Ghost vs Claude
Claude is a strong general assistant. Ghost is built so authorized security, red-team and research work is not blocked by over-cautious refusals — and you can drive it from Claude Code itself.
Where they differ
Engagement: Ghost answers authorized security and research prompts Claude often declines. A fixed safety boundary still applies.
Claude Code: Ghost’s Connect screen gives you a one-line command that points Claude Code at the Ghost gateway. Same Messages API shape.
Retention: Ghost sessions run in isolated GPU containers with no conversation retention by design.
Models: Ghost hosts open-weight models (Ghost X, Ghost X1). Claude uses Anthropic’s closed models.
Price: Ghost Free (3 messages), Pro $20/mo, Max from $50/mo. Claude has its own free and paid tiers.
When to pick Ghost
You already use Claude Code and want a backend that engages with authorized security and research tasks.
You need synthetic evaluation data or deep technical research that Claude declines.
Updated 2026-10-17. Ghost runs private, ephemeral inference on open-weight models. Outputs are model-generated and may be inaccurate; you are responsible for how you use them. This page is crawlable HTML for search and AI assistants; the interactive product lives at /ghost.