Anthropic Console
Build with Claude API — prompt engineering, evaluation, and deployment
The Anthropic Console is where developers build with Claude. Features include the Workbench for prompt engineering, evaluation tools for testing outputs, and API key management. The prompt caching and batch API features reduce costs significantly.
Panel Reviews
The Builder
Developer Perspective
“The Workbench is the best prompt engineering environment available. Test prompts, compare models, and see token counts in real-time. Essential for any Claude API project.”
The Skeptic
Reality Check
“Clean, functional, does what it needs to. The evaluation tools are underrated — most developers ship prompts without testing. This makes testing easy.”
The Futurist
Big Picture
“Anthropic is building the developer platform, not just the model. Console + Claude Code + Agent SDK — they want developers building on Claude, not just chatting with it.”
Community Sentiment
“Prompt caching is a game changer for long-context applications — 90% cost reduction”
“The Workbench is the best prompt testing environment of any major provider”
“Batch API with 50% discount finally makes large-scale Claude use economical”
“The evaluation tools make it easy to catch regressions when tweaking prompts”