On October 8, 2026, Anthropic released two new creation features for Claude in beta: Claude Dashboards, which builds dashboards when you ask questions about your company's data, and Claude Motion, which turns materials and numbers into short explainer animations. This article is based on Anthropic's announcement and the help documentation (confirmed October 22, 2026). It covers what each feature can do, who can use it, how to create and fix them, and what they are and aren't good for.
Claude Dashboards
Ask your data, get a table
Connect a data warehouse or Salesforce and ask questions in plain language. You can see the original query for each chart, and the dashboard stays up to date as the data changes.
Claude Motion
Turn materials into a short video
Turn a report or chart into an explainer animation of about 30 seconds and export it as MP4. It does not use a video generation model. The content is code.
Who can use it
Both require a paid plan
Dashboards is available on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise. Motion is available on Team and Enterprise. On Enterprise, an admin must enable it.
Table of contents
1. The differences between the two features
Both are new types of "artifacts," which are outputs you create within a Claude conversation and that open beside the chat. They belong to the same family as Docs, Slides, and Design, and anything you create is saved in the Artifacts tab.
| Point of comparison | Claude Dashboards | Claude Motion |
|---|---|---|
| What it creates | Data dashboards (charts and tables) | Short explainer animations |
| Materials | Data from connected apps, such as a data warehouse or Salesforce | Your own materials, such as reports, data, and images |
| Contents | SQL queries that Claude wrote for each chart | Code that animates text, charts, shapes, and images |
| Output | Sharing, sending to BI tools | Export as MP4, sharing, continuing in video editing tools |
| Plans that include it | Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise | Team, Enterprise |
Anthropic explains that both are "Claude creates the first version, and people decide what to share." For dashboards, you can check and fix the queries that produce the numbers. For animations, you can check and fix the code that drives the motion.
Source: Build live dashboards and animate explainers with Claude (Anthropic, October 8, 2026).
2. What Claude Dashboards can do
When you want to know something about your company's data, you usually have to ask an analyst or write SQL yourself. Once you connect a data warehouse, Claude Dashboards lets you create a dashboard just by asking a question in plain language. Claude writes a SQL query for each chart, runs it against your data, and keeps the display current as the data changes.
Anthropic says Dashboards is best for exploratory questions that need quick answers, such as "How do this week's sign-ups compare with last month?" It is positioned as a tool to use alongside BI tools, not as a replacement for them.
You can also add charts to Claude Docs documents, but those charts do not update automatically from the numbers at the time they were made. A useful rule is to use Dashboards for numbers that keep changing and Docs for a report that captures a point in time. For how charts work in Docs, see What is Claude Docs?
Source: Get started with Claude Dashboards (Claude Help) and Build live dashboards and animate explainers with Claude.
3. How to create and fix dashboards
- Connect your data first Connect the data warehouse or app you want to ask about, such as Salesforce, to Claude in advance.
- Ask in a conversation In any conversation, ask something like "Make a dashboard of this quarter's sales by region." You can also choose "Dashboards" from "Output" in the message box.
- Check the dashboard you get For any number you're unsure about, open the chart's query and check whether it counts what you intended. If not, tell Claude what to fix.
- Fix it and share Ask in the conversation, for example "Add a filter for region" or "Switch to a weekly view." When it's ready, give it to others with Share.
The help documentation offers two tips for asking. First, describe what you want to know, not the type of chart. "This month's sign-ups by channel compared with last month" is more likely to get the answer you want than "a sign-up chart." Second, if you already know which table or app holds the data, name it.
The help documentation gives these three examples of requests:
- "Make a dashboard of this quarter's sales by region."
- "Show weekly sign-ups for the past six months, split by plan."
- "Make a dashboard of open Salesforce deals, by stage and by sales rep."
Three things to check when you open a query
A chart can look right and still count things differently from what you intended. When you open a query, check at least these three points. You don't need to read SQL. You can ask Claude, "Explain in plain language what this query counts," to verify it.
If something is off, tell Claude what to change, for example "Exclude cancellations" or "Count the same person as one."
4. What Claude Motion can do
Content that would be clearer in motion usually ends up as a static slide. Claude Motion creates short explainer animations from reports and numbers. Anthropic's examples include a 30-second explanation of a quarterly report for an all-hands meeting, motion added to a chart in a board deck, and a walkthrough of a product for new customers.
If you want to create live-action footage or people with AI, that is where a video generation AI comes in, not Motion. For how to choose a video generation AI, see Getting started with AI video generation.
Source: Get started with Claude Motion (Claude Help) and Build live dashboards and animate explainers with Claude.
5. How to create and fix animations
- Ask in a conversation Ask something like "Turn this quarter's report into a 30-second explainer for the all-hands meeting." You can also choose "Motion" from "Output" in the message box.
- Say who will watch it, where, and how long it should be Tell Claude who the audience is, where it will be shown, and roughly how long it should run.
- Add materials If you attach reports, data, or images, the animation is built from your own materials.
- Fix it and export Ask in the conversation, for example "Make the second scene slower" or "Set the Q3 number to 18%," or edit it yourself in the editing screen. When it's ready, export it as MP4.
For example, if you want to show a quarterly report at an all-hands meeting, a request like the following covers the "who, where, and how long" that the help documentation recommends.
Turn the attached quarterly report into a 30-second explainer animation to play at the start of the all-hands meeting.
The audience is everyone in the company, and many of them are not familiar with the numbers.
The two points to convey are "sales grew compared with the previous quarter" and "the growth came from the new plan."
Use only one chart, and make the numbers large.When it's done, first play the whole thing and check that the numbers and wording match the report. Because the animation is code, you can change just part of it, such as "Change only the wording in the last scene," without breaking the rest.
The help documentation also gives examples such as "Show the differences between pricing plans in motion for a sales kickoff" and "Create a short walkthrough of setup steps for new customers." For how to create presentation slides themselves, see How to create presentation slides with AI.
6. Who can use them, settings, and usage
| Item | Claude Dashboards | Claude Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Plans that include it | Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise (beta) | Team, Enterprise (beta) |
| Free plan | Not available | Not available |
| Team default | No default is stated in the help documentation (the owner switches it on or off in organization settings) | On by default |
| Enterprise default | Off by default (the owner enables it) | Off by default (the owner enables it) |
| Usage | Counts toward your plan's usage limits | Counts toward your plan's usage limits (longer and more complex work uses more) |
Owners of Team and Enterprise plans can turn these on or off under "Organization settings" > "Artifacts" (Organization settings > Artifacts). On Enterprise, you can also use custom roles to make them available only to specific groups. In the same announcement, Docs, Slides, and Design left beta and became available on all plans, including the free plan.
Source: Get started with Claude Dashboards and Get started with Claude Motion (Claude Help, confirmed October 22, 2026).
7. What they are good for and not good for
| Feature | Good for | Not good for |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboards | Questions that need quick answers, such as comparing this week with last month | In-depth analysis (send to a BI tool to continue) |
| Dashboards | Monitoring numbers that keep changing | Keeping a point-in-time number as a report (Docs is a better fit) |
| Motion | Explaining your own reports, charts, and procedures in motion | Videos that need live-action footage or people (this is where a video generation AI comes in) |
| Motion | Making small changes to numbers or wording later | Free plan, or individual use on Pro or Max (Team and Enterprise only) |
Which Claude creation feature to use
Including Docs, Slides, and Design, Claude now has five creation features. If you're not sure which to use, choose based on the shape of what you want to make.
Before you use numbers from Dashboards, open the chart's query at least once and check what it counts. Even if the query Claude wrote differs from what you intended, you can't tell from the chart's appearance alone.
Summary
- Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are Claude creation features that were added in beta on October 8, 2026.
- Dashboards connects to data warehouses and apps, creates dashboards when you ask questions, and keeps them up to date as the data changes. You can see the original query for each chart.
- Motion turns reports and charts into short explainer animations and exports them as MP4. It does not use a video generation model. The content is code.
- Dashboards is available on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise. Motion is available on Team and Enterprise. On Enterprise, an admin must enable both.
- Both count toward your plan's usage limits.
FAQ
Q. Can I use these on the free plan?
A. No. Dashboards is in beta for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise, and Motion is in beta for Team and Enterprise. Docs, Slides, and Design, which left beta on the same day, are available on the free plan too.
Q. Do the numbers in Dashboards update automatically?
A. Anthropic's announcement says the dashboard stays up to date as the data changes. Each chart shows the time its data was last updated.
Q. Can Motion create videos of people speaking?
A. No. Motion does not use a video generation model, so it cannot produce live-action-style footage or AI-generated people. It explains things by animating text, charts, shapes, and images.
Q. Why can't I find these on Enterprise?
A. On Enterprise, both Dashboards and Motion are off by default. An owner can enable them under "Organization settings" > "Artifacts."
Sources
- Anthropic: Build live dashboards and animate explainers with Claude (October 8, 2026)
- Claude Help: Get started with Claude Dashboards and Get started with Claude Motion
