What it does
Provides programmatic access to the full Claude model family for developers and enterprises to embed Claude into their own applications, pipelines, and workflows.
Key features
- Access to all Claude model tiers (Fable 5, Mythos 5, Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5)
- Tool use / function calling
- Prompt caching (up to 90% cost reduction on repeated context)
- Message Batches API (50% discount for async batch processing)
- Files API for persistent document handling
- Managed Agents API with Dreaming memory consolidation
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) support
Integrations
Amazon BedrockGoogle Cloud Vertex AIMicrosoft Azure / FoundryClaude Platform on AWSLangChainLlamaIndex