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Anthropic API

shipBlueshift — gaining momentum

Claude models direct — the practitioner's pick for coding and long-form text.

docs.anthropic.com

journal entry · observed by @whysanesanders · verified 2026-08-15

If your product is code or long-form text, Claude's API is where quality-per-dollar peaks right now. Prompt caching and the batch API make heavy workloads economical.

Known limitations

  • Capacity crunches at peak demand have caused 429s.
  • Fewer auxiliary tools than OpenAI's ecosystem.
  • The Opus tier is expensive.

Facts

pricing
paid
price note
Sonnet $3/1M input, $15/1M output; Haiku from $0.80/1M input
free tier
no
open source
no
api
yes
self-host
no
category
models-api

Models used

claude-opus-4-1claude-sonnet-4-5claude-haiku-3-5

Receipts

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