Free Claude Courses from Anthropic Academy
3 free courses and videos, grouped by the level each provider gives, with the prerequisites and certificates their pages state.
What is Claude?
Claude is the AI assistant and family of models made by Anthropic. You can use it as a chatbot on the web, desktop and phone, as Claude Code for writing software, or through the Claude API inside your own apps.
Anthropic Academy publishes free courses for each of these, from everyday use to building with the API.
Who these courses are for
Claude users and developers. Claude 101 needs no coding; the Claude Code and API courses list what they expect.
Beginner courses (2)
Claude 101
Anthropic Academy
Using Claude for everyday work: prompting, projects, artifacts, skills and connected tools. 13 lessons and a quiz.
Claude Code 101
Anthropic Academy
What Claude Code is, how its agentic loop, context and permissions work, the Explore, Plan, Code, Commit workflow, and customising it with CLAUDE.md, subagents, skills, MCP servers and hooks. 12 lessons.
Intermediate courses (1)
View and sign-up counts are the providers’ own figures, read 18 October 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Does Anthropic have free courses?+
Yes. Anthropic Academy, at academy.claude.com, describes itself as free courses, tutorials and use cases from Anthropic's education team, covering Claude, Claude Code, the Claude API and AI fluency.
How do I learn Claude Code?+
Anthropic Academy offers Claude Code 101, 12 lessons over about 1.5 hours, and Claude Code in Action, 9 lessons over about 1 hour, which lists basic familiarity with Git and the command line as a prerequisite.
Do the Claude courses give a certificate?+
The Anthropic Academy course pages list lessons and quizzes but do not state a certificate.