Claude API
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Anthropic has a token count API which gives a near estimate of the input tokens”
“Anthropic has a massive API platform with things like Sessions, Files, and Agents”
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“10+ Claude API integrations across dialog, vision, transcription, and tool-use.”
“replaced them with $2000 per month per head of Claude API tokens.”
Caveats and dissent
“so this can not be implemented efficiently via e.g. the Anthropic API”
“If I used the Anthropic API, my monthly spend would be $4k a month”
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“Their service is "human-like" until it's not, then you are left alone and out.”
“I described using the Anthropic API as exfil channel last October”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“AI analysis via Claude API”
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Also written as Anthropic API. Data: claude-api.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“including using Claude API to pre-review images and submissions”
“so this can not be implemented efficiently via e.g. the Anthropic API”
“Anthropic Claude API”
“let used Claude API to review individual listing and menus twice”
We have to separate “being evaluated” with “this is an ExploitGym exercise and I can find the answers on Hugging Face. I’ll hack this system, then hack Hugging Face.” I’ve had plenty of times where Opus knew I was testing it, but that’s because the prompt phrasing for an evaluation is often much different than a typical task prompt. “You are on a system with X, Y, and Z tools available. You must complete the followin
“Tech I reach for: TypeScript, Python, React/Next, Node/FastAPI, Postgres + pgvector, Redis, AWS, Claude API and Claude Code.”
“The Japanese side is produced by a Claude API pipeline I just open-sourced”
“Anthropic has a token count API which gives a near estimate of the input tokens”
“Day-to-day stack: Python, FastAPI, WebSockets, Claude API, JavaScript.”
> We do not work in the US and have strong requirements for the data to stay in our country, which Bedrock gives us control over. It doesn't actually. The US can request data from whatever country US companies store it, and companies must comply. So if you have strong requirements for data to stay in your country, using a US provider, whatever it is, is out of question no matter what the company's marketing claims (t
OpenAI API also supports defer_loading https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/tools-tool-search And it's not actually necessary for it to exist at the API level. It's a pattern. Making it API-side is just an optimization. To do it client-side: 1. Define a single tool, tool_search 2. List the names of your deferred tools in context (or tool_search's description) 3. When tool_search is called, match the query ag
“I use Claude api for my startup and the billings and rate limiting hurt.”
“Anthropic has a massive API platform with things like Sessions, Files, and Agents”
“10+ Claude API integrations across dialog, vision, transcription, and tool-use.”
“Claude API for summarisation”
“If I used the Anthropic API, my monthly spend would be $4k a month”
“Style generation uses the Anthropic API to produce full CSS”
“replaced them with $2000 per month per head of Claude API tokens.”
“deposit money into an Anthropic API account”
“You can buy this product, right here”
“Their service is "human-like" until it's not, then you are left alone and out.”
“I described using the Anthropic API as exfil channel last October”
“integrate AI (OpenAI/Anthropic/Google APIs, agent orchestration)”
“I use OpenAI and Anthropic APIs every day for work.”
“Anthropic recently added this to the API:”
“But I also have an ssh flask where I use an claude api.”