Okou vs Claude Tag

Claude Tag makes Claude a participant in your Slack channels: tag it in, and it reads the thread and does the work. Okou is a platform rather than one participant — several agents, models you choose, and workflows the team keeps.

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Pick Claude Tag if

Slack is where your work happens, you already hold Claude Enterprise or Team seats, and one Claude that reads every thread is the shape you want. Its proactive follow-up — surfacing the thread that went quiet, posting when a deploy lands — is genuinely good and Okou does not do it.

Pick Okou if

You want more than one agent, you do not want to be locked to a single vendor's models, or you need the work reachable outside Slack. Okou also runs on a free plan; Claude Tag needs a Team or Enterprise seat and an owner to switch it on.

Where the two actually differ

Both give the agent standing instructions and a schedule, both work in a Slack thread, and both keep an admin in control of what it can reach. Those are not differences.

Dimension	Okou	Claude Tag
Surfaces	Web and Slack⁷	Slack today; Microsoft Teams announced with a waitlist¹⁰
Agents per team	Seven org-shared agents plus unlimited private ones, each with its own description, tone, avatar and connector grants²	One Claude, scoped by an admin to the channels it works in¹⁰
Model	A per-thread picker across the Claude, GPT and DeepSeek families^3,9	Anthropic models only¹⁰
Status	Generally available	Beta¹⁰
Who can start	Anyone, on the free plan¹	Claude Team or Enterprise, and an owner has to provision it before anyone can tag it¹⁰
Getting set up	A member connects their own account and grants the agent what it needs. No admin step, and no engineer⁴	An owner provisions it, then access is configured per channel before regular members can use it¹⁰
Reusable team work	Shared workflows anyone can run, with each member's own triggers on top⁸	Standing instructions and schedules per channel¹⁰
Whose account acts	The member running it, using their connections and grants⁴	Claude, under its own identity, with its use logged¹⁰
Naming	Not white-labelled: the app is Okou. What you name is each agent — seven shared ones, each with its own name and avatar²	One identity, and it is called Claude¹⁰
Image and video generation	Built in, across several image and video models⁹	Not offered¹⁰

What you are actually choosing between

A platform, not one participant

Claude Tag is one Claude that an admin scopes to the channels it belongs in, so a sales setup cannot bleed into engineering. That isolation is the point and it is well built. Okou starts from the other end: seven shared agents on every plan, each created by you with its own instructions, tone, avatar and connector grants, usable in Slack or on the web.

Not locked to one vendor's models

Claude Tag runs Anthropic models, and that is the deal. Okou puts the model on the chat thread across the Claude, GPT and DeepSeek families, and on a paid plan a member can route through their own Claude or Codex subscription — so you can keep paying Anthropic without being locked to them.

A way in that is not a seat

Claude Tag is in beta on Claude Team and Enterprise, and an owner has to provision it before anyone can tag it. Okou's Free plan is 3,000 credits with no card, so the person who wants to prove the idea can prove it before anyone signs anything.

Where Claude Tag is the better tool

It does not wait to be asked: Claude Tag surfaces the thread that went quiet, posts when the deploy is live, and flags the decision that needs your call. Okou runs on triggers you define rather than watching a channel for things worth saying.
It reads the whole room: Tag it into a long, messy thread and it picks up the context everyone already shares — the screenshots, the back-and-forth, the decision — without being briefed.
Coding depth: Claude Tag shares an engine with Claude Code. Anthropic's own customers describe it tracing root cause and drafting fix PRs. For deep repository work it goes further than Okou's lightweight coding.
It is already in your bill: If you hold Claude Team or Enterprise seats, Claude Tag arrives inside a plan you are paying for rather than as a new line item.

What each one bills for

Claude Tag has no price of its own: it comes with a Claude Team or Enterprise plan, and Anthropic prices those through a sales conversation rather than a public table. Okou publishes its rate on every plan including free.

Okou

Workspace credits, published rate, no per-member charge

Free: $0 · 3,000 credits to start
Pro: $20/mo · 20,000 credits
Team: $200/mo · 120,000 credits
Enterprise: Custom
Credit top-up: $1 per 1,000

Concurrency scales with the plan: 1, 2 and 10 simultaneous runs. Every plan, Free included, allows 7 org-shared agents and unlimited private ones. Auto-recharge buys credits when the balance falls below a threshold, so a scheduled job does not stall overnight.

Claude Tag

Bundled with a Claude plan, in beta

Free: Not available
Team: Included; priced via Anthropic
Enterprise: Included; priced via Anthropic
Setup: An owner provisions it first
Published rate: None

Available in beta to Claude Enterprise and Team customers in Slack, installed from Anthropic's Slack integration. Anthropic's pricing page routes team plans through a sizing questionnaire rather than publishing a per-seat figure, so price it with them.

Okou vs Claude Tag FAQ

Do I need a paid Claude plan to use Claude Tag?

Yes. It is in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers, and an owner has to provision it before anyone can tag it. Okou starts on a free plan with no card.

Does Claude Tag work outside Slack?

Not yet. Slack is the only live surface; Microsoft Teams is announced with a waitlist. Okou runs on Web and Slack.

Can I keep using Claude models if I move to Okou?

Yes. Okou runs the Claude family alongside GPT and DeepSeek, with Claude Sonnet 4.6 as the default most agents run on, and on a paid plan a member can route through their own Anthropic subscription.

Can either one run without being asked?

Claude Tag can: it posts on its own when a job finishes or a thread stalls. Okou runs on triggers you define — a schedule, a new message, a finished run — rather than deciding on its own that something is worth saying.

What is the best Claude Tag alternative for a team that wants more than one agent?

Look for agents as objects you create rather than one identity an admin scopes. Okou allows seven org-shared agents and unlimited private ones on every plan, each with its own instructions, tone and connector grants.

Also compare Okou with Viktor, Lindy, Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Try it in the channel you already use

Connect a workspace, hand the agent a job from a real thread, and see the result come back where the discussion is.

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Compiled from Anthropic's own Claude Tag product page and announcement, read 21 August 2026. Claude and Claude Tag are products of Anthropic PBC and are not affiliated with Okou.