Anthropic
Claude models, built around long agentic runs and tool use
Overall in llm apis
12of 18 · score 61
Data coverage
93%
25 of 27 fields sourced
Best for
- •Agent harnesses that call tools for minutes at a time
- •Code generation and review where first-try correctness pays for the token price
- •Teams that want cost tuned per route via graduated effort levels
Strong on
- +Effort control Yes 1/18
- +MCP support Yes 1/18
- +Computer use Yes 1/18
- +Notice period 180 days 1/7
Weak on
- −$/M output $50/M tok 13/13Better: Fireworks AI: $0.05/M tok
- −$/M input $10/M tok 13/13Better: Groq: $0.05/M tok
- −$/M cache read $1/M tok 12/12Better: DeepSeek: $0.0028/M tok
- −Open weights No 18/18Better: Meta Llama: Yes
vs Google Gemini
- •Ahead on MCP support: Yes vs Partial
- •Ahead on Computer use: Yes vs Partial
- •Behind on $/M output: $50/M tok vs $12/M tok
- •Behind on $/M input: $10/M tok vs $2/M tok
How Anthropic scores among 18 llm apis25 of 27 fields known
Capability7
Open weights
No
18/18
Leader: Meta Llama · Yes
· 2026-06-24
OpenAI-compat API
Partial
17/18
Leader: OpenAI · Yes
· 2026-06-24
Performance2
TTFT p50
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Output tok/s
—
Pricing4
Agentic6
Cache TTL
5 min default, 1 h option; automatic or explicit breakpoints
platform.claude.com · 2026-06-24
Governance & continuity6
Continuity policy
Published deprecation page lists a retirement date per model, typically months ahead, Opus 3 went on 2026-01-05, Sonnet 3.7 and Haiku 3.5 on 2026-02-19. Older models carried dated snapshot IDs you could pin, but the current generation ships as bare aliases with no dated ID behind them, so the retirement date is your only guarantee.
platform.claude.com · 2026-06-24
Notice period1st
180 days
1/7
Zero retention
Partial
7/18
Leader: Amazon Bedrock · Yes
· 2026-06-24
Trains on your data
No
7/18
Leader: DeepSeek · Yes
· 2026-06-24
AU region
Partial
5/18
Leader: Google Gemini · Yes
· 2026-06-24
Traction1
API since3rd
2023
3/18
Leader: OpenAI · 2020
Positioning1
Positioning
Frontier models for long-horizon agentic work and code
Alternatives8
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Sources12
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview4 fields
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing3 fields
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/vision1 field
- platform.claude.com/docs1 field
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/batch-processing1 field
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/overview1 field
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/structured-outputs1 field
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/effort1 field
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/computer-use1 field
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/mcp-connector1 field
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching1 field
- platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-deprecations1 field