spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "claude-developer-platform",3  "name": "Claude Platform",4  "aliases": ["Claude Developer Platform", "Anthropic API", "Claude API", "Claude Console", "Anthropic Console"],5  "vendor": { "name": "Anthropic", "slug": "anthropic", "website": "https://www.anthropic.com/" },6  "homepage_url": "https://platform.claude.com/",7  "docs_url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/home",8  "repo_url": "https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python",9  "pricing_url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing",10  "privacy_url": "https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy",11  "product_type": "platform",12  "product_status": "active",13  "summary": "Anthropic's developer platform for the Claude models: Messages API, tool use, structured outputs, prompt caching, batch processing and Managed Agents, plus cloud availability",14  "description": "The Claude Platform is Anthropic's hosted API and console for building with the Claude model family. It was previously documented at docs.anthropic.com and docs.claude.com; both now redirect to platform.claude.com, where the console (API keys, workspaces, usage analytics, playground) and the documentation live together. The platform is cloud-only and usage-billed, and the same models are also sold through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry for teams that prefer to buy through an existing cloud account.\n\nThe core surface is the Messages API: the caller supplies the conversation, and Claude returns text, tool calls or structured JSON. Around it sit extended thinking, vision input, tool use with server-side tools (web search, code execution), structured outputs, prompt caching to reduce the cost of repeated context, streaming, batch processing for asynchronous workloads, the Files API and usage and cost analytics endpoints. A second surface, Managed Agents (beta), runs long-lived agents in stateful sessions with persistent event history, tool permission policies and orchestration handled by Anthropic rather than the caller. Official client libraries cover Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP and C#, and a command-line client (`ant`) is documented alongside them. Claude Code and the Agent SDK build on this platform but are documented separately.\n\nTypical users are application teams adding assistant, extraction or agent features, and research groups running large batch jobs. Limits are the usual ones for a proprietary hosted API: there is no self-hosted option, model versions are retired on a published schedule, rate limits are tiered by spend, and data handling follows Anthropic's commercial terms rather than the consumer privacy policy.",15  "capabilities": ["Messages API with streaming, vision input and extended thinking", "Tool use including server-side web search and code execution tools", "Structured outputs validated against a JSON schema", "Prompt caching and batch processing for cost control", "Managed Agents (beta) with stateful sessions and permission policies", "Workspaces, API keys and usage/cost analytics in the console", "Client SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP and C#, plus a CLI", "Availability through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry"],16  "workflows": ["Prototype a prompt in the console playground, then call it from an SDK", "Build an agent loop with tool use and structured outputs", "Run nightly document-extraction jobs through the Batch API with cached system prompts", "Deploy a long-running agent with Managed Agents instead of hosting the loop yourself"],17  "advantages": ["One documentation and console site after the 2025–2026 consolidation", "Same models purchasable through three major clouds", "Prompt caching and batch tiers make large workloads cheaper to operate", "Broad official SDK coverage"],18  "limitations": ["Cloud-only; no on-premises deployment", "Model deprecation schedule requires periodic migration", "Rate limits scale with spend tier and may constrain new accounts", "Managed Agents is in beta and subject to change"],19  "prerequisites": ["Anthropic console account with billing or a cloud marketplace subscription", "An HTTP client or one of the official SDKs"],20  "audiences": ["Application developers integrating Claude", "Agent and automation builders", "Researchers running large batch analyses"],21  "alternatives": ["openai-platform", "gemini-api", "mistral-ai", "openrouter"],22  "comparison_notes": "The OpenAI API and Gemini API are the direct counterparts; all three expose chat-style endpoints with tool calling, structured outputs, caching and batch modes, but with different schemas, so a gateway such as LiteLLM or OpenRouter is often used to abstract them. Anthropic's Managed Agents parallels OpenAI's managed Agents API. Unlike Mistral AI, Anthropic does not publish open-weight models, so self-hosting is not an option.",23  "categories": [{ "slug": "model-providers", "primary": true }, { "slug": "agent-frameworks", "label": "Managed Agents and tool use" }],24  "tags": ["llm", "api", "agents", "python", "typescript", "structured-outputs"],25  "use_cases": ["build-agents", "write-code-with-ai", "evaluate-llm-apps"],26  "operating_systems": ["any"],27  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],28  "interfaces": ["api", "sdk", "web", "cli"],29  "deployment_models": ["saas", "managed-cloud"],30  "integrations": ["Amazon Bedrock", "Google Cloud Vertex AI", "Microsoft Foundry", "Claude Code", "Model Context Protocol", "LangChain", "LiteLLM"],31  "data_formats": ["JSON", "JSON Schema (structured outputs)", "JSONL (batches)", "PDF", "Images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP)"],32  "languages": ["Python", "TypeScript", "Go", "Java", "Ruby", "PHP", "C#"],33  "source_model": "proprietary",34  "pricing_model": ["usage-based", "enterprise"],35  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",36  "self_hostable": false,37  "sources": [38    { "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/home", "type": "official_docs", "title": "Claude Platform documentation", "supports": ["name", "capabilities", "languages", "interfaces", "integrations"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02", "note": "docs.claude.com and docs.anthropic.com redirect here" },39    { "url": "https://claude.com/platform/api", "type": "official_site", "title": "Claude Platform | Claude by Anthropic", "supports": ["name", "summary", "deployment_models"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },40    { "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing", "type": "pricing_page", "supports": ["pricing_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },41    { "url": "https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python", "type": "repository", "title": "anthropic-sdk-python (Apache-2.0)", "supports": ["languages"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }42  ],43  "confidence": "high",44  "uncertainty_note": "Anthropic's own pages call the product \"Claude Platform\"; \"Claude Developer Platform\" is kept as an alias because it was used in earlier documentation and in this encyclopedia's slug.",45  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",46  "depth": "deep",47  "editorial_status": "reviewed",48  "visibility": "public",49  "featured": false,50  "author": "batch-A"51}52