Which shared workspace do you actually need?
Cowork makes Claude itself real-time and shared. Dock makes a persistent workspace your team and every agent you run share. An honest read on which fits when.
The work that outlives the conversation: many agents, one persistent workspace, every action attributed.
One shares the chat. One shares the workspace.
 Claude | Claude Cowork | Dock | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time, in-the-moment collaboration | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Persistent workspace, not just a session | – | – | ✓ |
| Shared docs and tables | – | – | ✓ |
| Many agents, each attributed | – | – | ✓ |
| Connected to your other tools | ~ | – | ✓ |
| Shareable beyond your team | – | – | ✓ |
| Native, nothing to set up | ✓ | ✓ | – |
Claude Cowork and Dock, answered.
What's the difference between Claude Cowork and Dock?
Cowork makes Claude itself real-time and collaborative inside Anthropic. Dock is a persistent shared workspace (docs + tables) that your whole team and every agent you run work in together, connected to your other tools. Cowork shares the conversation; Dock shares the workspace.
Is Claude Cowork an AI workspace?
It's a collaborative layer on Claude rather than a standalone, persistent workspace. It makes working with Claude shareable in the moment. For a durable, team-visible workspace where the work accumulates and multiple agents operate, that's the role Dock fills.
Can I use Cowork and Dock together?
Yes, and it's a sensible setup. Use Cowork for live, in-Claude collaboration; use Dock as the persistent workspace the output lives in, shared with your team and your agents.
Does Dock replace Claude or Cowork?
No. Dock is a workspace layer, not a model or a chat. You keep using Claude (and Cowork if you like it); Dock is where that work becomes a shared, persistent, multi-agent artifact.
Keep Cowork. Add the workspace underneath.
Open a free Dock workspace and give your Claude work a persistent, multi-agent home it can live in long after the conversation ends.