Anthropic API
The Anthropic API gives developers access to Claude for building AI applications.
Our verdict
Who it's for
API access to Claude for building AI applications
Who should look elsewhere
Expensive at scale
Pros
- +Claude models very capable
- +Long context window
- +Constitutional AI safety
- +Good for coding
- +Improving rapidly
Cons
- −Expensive at scale
- −Rate limits
- −Less multimodal than leading models
- −No fine-tuning yet
- −Smaller ecosystem
Key features
- ✓Claude AI models
- ✓Constitutional AI
- ✓Long context windows
- ✓Function calling
- ✓Vision capabilities
- ✓Enterprise security
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | — | month | Claude 3.5 Sonnet; Claude 3 Opus; Claude 3 Haiku |