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Anthropic Claude (API)

Anthropic

The model layer behind Claude, suited to long-context, document-heavy, and analysis-heavy applications.

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Best for

  • Building with long-context, careful models
  • Document-heavy and analysis apps
  • Teams wanting a strong safety posture

Not ideal for

  • Non-developers (use Claude.ai instead)
  • Media generation

Strengths

  • Large context windows
  • Strong reasoning and instruction-following
  • Privacy-friendly API terms

Limitations

  • Requires engineering effort
  • Usage-based pricing

Getting good results

  • Separate instructions and data clearly
  • Use a system prompt for role and rules
  • Ask for structured outputs

Prompt template

Starter prompt for Anthropic Claude (API)

System: [role + rules]
User: <data>[...]</data>
Task: [...]. Output: [schema].

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