How to Join the Claude Duet Waitlist (and Get Your Invite to Work)

To join the Claude Duet waitlist, go to the official Claude Duet product page, select Join the waitlist, and enter your name, email, plan and phone type (iPhone or Android). You’ll be eligible only if you have a Claude Pro, Max or Ultra plan with a US account, and you should use the same email address as your Claude account. Anthropic says it will email you when it’s your turn.

That’s the short version. Below are the details that decide whether your invite actually works, plus what to expect once you’re in. Everything here reflects Anthropic’s own pages as of November 2026. Claude Duet is a research preview, so details may change.

What Claude Duet is

Anthropic announced Claude Duet on October 21, 2026 as a research-preview app in which Claude works as a proactive agent. Instead of waiting for prompts, it “comes to you with what needs your attention.” It carries out tasks you give it, keeps working while you’re away, and checks with you before acting on your behalf.

A few things make it different from the regular Claude app:

• A separate app. Duet is a standalone app for iOS and Android, separate from the main Claude app for now. The product page says you can also use it on the web at claude.ai from a computer.
• A daily morning brief that pulls together important items from the apps you’ve connected.
• Its own virtual machine and browser, so your laptop or phone doesn’t need to stay on while it works.
• Approval gates. Before it sends messages, makes payments, signs documents or deletes anything, it shows you what it plans to do and waits for you to approve. Anthropic says some actions are off-limits even with your approval, such as trading securities and moving money between accounts.

Anthropic says Duet is built on Claude Opus 5.5.

Who can join the waitlist

According to the help center article, you need all three of the following to use Claude Duet:

1. A Pro, Max or Ultra plan
2. A Claude account in the US
3. An invitation from the waitlist

Anthropic hasn’t said when other countries or business plans will get access. If you’re outside the US, there is currently no official way in.

How to join the Claude Duet waitlist, step by step

These steps follow Anthropic’s help center instructions.

1. Check your plan first. Sign in to Claude and confirm you’re on Pro, Max or Ultra with a US account. If you aren’t eligible, getting an invite won’t help.
2. Note which email your Claude account uses. Use this email on the waitlist form (more on why below).
3. Open the official product page at claude.com/product/claude-duet and select Join the waitlist.
4. Fill in the form. Enter your name and email, then choose your plan and phone type (iPhone or Android).
5. Select Submit. That’s it. There’s nothing else to do until your invitation email arrives.

There is no paid or priority route. The waitlist on Anthropic’s own site is the only official way in, so be wary of anyone offering invite codes or “skip the line” links.

The email-matching rule that trips people up

This is the most important detail. The help center says access “is tied to the email address you gave us,” and that access can fail if the email you used on the waitlist doesn’t match:

• your Claude account email, or
• the Google or Apple account on your phone.

Anthropic’s advice is to use the same email across all three. If your iPhone uses a personal Apple ID and your Claude account uses a work address, sort that out before you sign up, because the invite is linked to the email you put on the form.

What happens when your invitation arrives

Invitations go out in waves, and Anthropic says joining “doesn’t guarantee a specific date.” When your turn comes:

1. Open the invitation email on your phone and follow the setup steps for your device.
2. Use the Apple or Google account linked to the email you gave on the waitlist.
3. Open Claude Duet and sign in with your Claude account.

If the app doesn’t show up right away, wait a little. The help center notes that “it can take a few minutes for the app to become available after you accept the invitation.”

If you’ve been invited but still can’t get in

Anthropic’s troubleshooting checklist is short:

• Confirm your plan is Pro, Max or Ultra.
• Confirm your Claude account is a US account.
• Confirm the email on the waitlist matches your Claude account and your phone’s Apple or Google account.
• Confirm you actually completed the waitlist form.

If something goes wrong once you’re using it, Anthropic says you can describe the problem in plain words in the Duet chat, and it will pass your report to the team.

Cost and usage limits

Claude Duet has no separate price during the research preview. It’s included in Pro, Max and Ultra plans. However, it shares your plan’s usage limits. The help center says that includes “any five-hour session limit and your weekly limits,” charged at the same rate as chats.

The catch is that Duet also works in the background. Morning briefs and check-ins count toward your limits, so you may hit them sooner than with chat alone. The announcement adds that bigger jobs, like building a financial model or a deck, take more model turns. Anthropic says Duet checks your connected accounts every few hours to avoid using up limits too quickly.

To offset this, Anthropic says newly admitted users get one full reset of their session and weekly limits, available until November 30, 2026. If you’re invited before then, it’s worth knowing that reset exists.

Known limitations to keep in mind

Anthropic is fairly upfront that this is early software. From the announcement:

• Duet “still might misread a thread or miscalibrate what’s urgent.”
• Personal errands, such as booking tickets, are “not quite as strong” as work tasks.
• It can’t yet show you its browser while it works.
• It lives in its own app for now, and Anthropic says early feedback will shape how it fits with the main Claude app.

On October 23, 2026, Anthropic added a note saying it is still developing and strengthening Duet’s safety, privacy and security protections. Since Duet connects to your accounts and can act on your behalf, it makes sense to read the approval prompts carefully and connect only the apps you actually want it to use.

One point the sources don’t fully agree on

Anthropic’s pages differ slightly on where you can use Duet. The announcement and the product page say it runs on iOS, Android and the web at claude.ai. The help center setup guide, however, only describes phone setup, and the waitlist form asks for your phone type. In practice, plan on setting it up on your phone first. The help center also doesn’t say how long the wait is, what happens if you aren’t invited, or when non-US users will get access. We’ll update this guide as Anthropic shares more.