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Claude

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Anthropic's safety-focused AI assistant — exceptional at long documents and nuanced reasoning.

Free tier available·All audiences·Powered by Anthropic·API available

Key strengths

200K context windowcodinglong document analysisinstruction following
Free tier + paid plans · from $20 USD/mo
San Francisco, US
Founded 2021
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API Overview

  • Endpoint: POST https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages
  • Auth: x-api-key header
  • Models: claude-opus-4-5, claude-sonnet-4-5, claude-haiku-3-5
  • Features: streaming, tool use (function calling), vision, PDF reading

Context caching

Prompt caching reduces cost by up to 90% for repeated prefixes. Pass cache_control: { type: "ephemeral" } on the content block to cache.