Claude API
Anthropic’s model API for long-context and agentic work
- Paid
- Model Providers
What it is
The Claude API serves Anthropic’s model family with tool use, structured output, long-context requests, prompt caching and batch processing. Extended thinking lets you trade latency for deeper reasoning per request, and prompt caching makes large stable prefixes cheap to reuse. Anthropic also authors the Model Context Protocol that standardises how models reach external tools and data.
Best for
Long-context reasoning, careful instruction following and agentic tool use with explicit control over cost and latency.
Where it falls short
Modality coverage is narrower than providers that also serve image, audio and video generation from the same account.
Characteristics
- inference-api
- long-context
- prompt-caching
- mcp
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