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Anthropic API

Anthropic API

Claude API for building AI applications

The Anthropic API provides access to Claude models with tool use, vision, streaming, and batch processing. Known for the best instruction-following and safety.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

Best instruction-following of any model. Tool use and extended thinking are reliable. The API design is clean.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

Claude consistently produces the most useful outputs for real work. The longer context window is a genuine advantage.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

Anthropic's focus on safety without sacrificing capability is the right approach. Claude keeps getting better.