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Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety company and creator of the Claude family of large language models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku). The Claude API provides access to Claude models for text generation, vision, tool use, extended thinking, batch processing, and agentic workflows including managed agents, skills, memory, compaction, and computer use. Anthropic also publishes the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) for standardized AI tool integration and ships Claude Code, the terminal-based agentic coding tool.

agent native

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Anthropic the way a machine reads it — 99 machine-readable artifacts across 24 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Anthropic scores 75.1/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 87/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 75.1/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 20.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 17.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 87/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile Anthropic

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Anthropic. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 24

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Anthropic Messages API

Send a structured list of input messages with text and/or image content, and the model will generate the next message in the conversation. The Messages API supports text, images...

Anthropic Models API

List and inspect Claude models including Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5. The response includes max_input_tokens, max_tokens, and a capabilities object for every model so cl...

Anthropic Message Batches API

Send a batch of Message creation requests at 50% off both input and output tokens. Batches can take up to 24 hours to complete. Supports up to 300k output tokens per request on ...

Anthropic Files API

The Files API lets you upload and manage files for reuse across Messages, Batches, code execution, and Managed Agents without re-uploading content. 500 MB request limit; support...

Anthropic Token Counting API

Count the number of tokens in a Message, including tools, images, and documents, without creating it. The Token Count API accepts the same structured list of inputs as Messages ...

Anthropic Skills API

Create and manage custom Agent Skills. Skills are filesystem-based directories of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads on demand via progressive disclosure. Wo...

Anthropic Claude Code Analytics API

Daily aggregated user-level Claude Code productivity metrics — sessions, lines of code, commits, pull requests, tool actions, and estimated costs by model — via /v1/organization...

Anthropic Agents API

Reusable, versioned agent configurations

Anthropic Api Keys API

Monitor and manage API keys

Anthropic Cost API

Service-level cost reporting

Anthropic Environments API

Container configuration for agent sessions

Anthropic Events API

User messages and tool results sent to a session

Anthropic Organization API

Retrieve organization information and settings

Anthropic Organization Invites API

Create and manage organization invitations

Anthropic Organization Members API

Manage organization members and their roles

Anthropic Prompt Generation API

APIs for generating well-written prompts for specified tasks

Anthropic Prompt Improvement API

APIs for enhancing existing prompts with feedback

Anthropic Prompt Templatization API

APIs for converting prompts into reusable templates with variables

Anthropic Sessions API

Stateful agent execution instances

Anthropic Skill Versions API

Manage versions of a Skill

Anthropic Tokens API

APIs for counting tokens in messages

Anthropic Usage API

Token usage and consumption reporting

Anthropic Workspace Members API

Manage workspace membership and roles

Anthropic Workspaces API

Create and manage workspaces within an organization

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Postman Collections 11

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 11

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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Arazzo Workflows 11

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Anthropic Cancel a Message Batch and Confirm

Create a batch, request cancellation, then poll until it leaves the canceling state.

ARAZZO

Anthropic Create Batch, Poll, and Retrieve Results

Submit a message batch, poll until processing ends, then fetch the JSONL results.

ARAZZO

Anthropic Count Tokens Then Create Message

Estimate input token usage for a prompt, then send the message only when it fits a budget.

ARAZZO

Anthropic Create Workspace and Add a Member

Create a workspace, add a user to it, then confirm the member appears in the roster.

ARAZZO

Anthropic Discover a Model and Send a Message

List available models, confirm a chosen model exists, then create a message with it.

ARAZZO

Anthropic Invite an Org Member and Confirm

Send an organization invite, then read it back and branch on whether it is still pending.

ARAZZO

Anthropic List Batches and Fetch Latest Results

List message batches, inspect the most recent one, and pull its results if it has ended.

ARAZZO

Anthropic Onboard an Org Member into a Workspace

Find an org member by email, create a workspace, and add that member to it.

ARAZZO

Anthropic Provision and Promote a Workspace Member

Create a workspace, add a member as a developer, then promote them to workspace admin.

ARAZZO

Anthropic Upload, List, and Clean Up a File

Upload a file, confirm it appears in the file list, then delete it to clean up.

ARAZZO

Anthropic Upload, Verify, and Download a File

Upload a file, read back its metadata, and download its content when it is downloadable.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

anthropic-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Anthropic GraphQL Schema

This GraphQL schema is a conceptual representation of the Anthropic Claude API derived from the REST API surface. The Anthropic API provides access to Claude large language mode...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Anthropic Rate Limits

12 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 26

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Claude Opus 4.7 — most capable generally available model for complex reasoning and agentic coding
Claude Sonnet 4.6 — balanced model combining speed and intelligence with 1M context window
Claude Haiku 4.5 — fastest model with near-frontier intelligence
Messages API with text, vision, tool use, extended thinking, streaming, structured outputs
Prompt caching with automatic and manual breakpoints, 5-minute and 1-hour TTLs, cache reads at 10% of input price
Server-side compaction API for effectively infinite conversations on Opus 4.6/4.7 and Sonnet 4.6
Memory tool (client-side) for cross-conversation persistence with ZDR support
Message Batches API with 50% discount on both input and output tokens
Files API for upload-once / reuse-many content across Messages and Managed Agents
Agent Skills API (beta) — packaged domain expertise with progressive disclosure
Claude Managed Agents (beta) — Agents, Sessions, Environments with SSE streaming and managed sandboxes
Web Search tool ($10/1,000 searches) and Web Fetch tool (free)
Code Execution tool — Python + Bash + filesystem in sandbox; 1,550 free container-hours/month
Computer Use tool for browser and desktop automation (beta)
Advisor tool (beta) for pairing executor and high-intelligence advisor models
Tool Search tool and Programmatic Tool Calling
Token-bucket rate limiting with cache-aware ITPM (cache reads excluded on most models)
Five usage tiers (Tier 1-4 plus Monthly Invoicing) with automatic advancement
Usage & Cost Admin API and Claude Code Analytics Admin API for FinOps reporting
Rate Limits API for programmatic limit inspection
Workload Identity Federation for short-lived bearer tokens
Data residency controls (US-only inference at 1.1x pricing for models after Feb 2026)
Available via Claude API, Claude Platform on AWS, Microsoft Foundry, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI
{"Official SDKs"=>"Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, Ruby, C#, PHP plus the `ant` CLI"}
Claude Code (terminal agent) and Claude Code GitHub Action
Open MCP specification stewardship via modelcontextprotocol.io

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Anthropic Messages Streaming API

AsyncAPI specification modeling the Server-Sent Events (SSE) stream produced by Anthropic's Messages API when `"stream": true` is set on a POST to `/v1/messages`. Transport: HTT...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Anthropic Context

0 classes · 18 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Anthropic API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Anthropic API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Anthropic Message

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Anthropic Tool Use

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Anthropic Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Anthropic Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Anthropic Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Anthropic Trust Center

SOC 2 Type I, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, HIPAA

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Anthropic Agentic Access

71 operations · 37 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

71 operations · 37 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Anthropic — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Learn 3

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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