Claude v1

Anthropic chat Free

API ID: anthropic/claude-1

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Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Claude v1

Claude 1 is Anthropic's original language model, representing the foundation of the Claude series. Released in 2023, it introduced Anthropic's approach to helpful, harmless, and honest AI. While superseded by Claude 2 and Claude 3, it remains historically significant as Anthropic's first commercial offering. The model demonstrated strong performance on general language tasks with notable safety characteristics. For understanding Anthropic's AI development journey, Claude 1 represents an important milestone.

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Model Specifications

Context Length
100k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2023-07-28
Capabilities
chat
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
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Get started with Claude v1 API

Anthropic Python SDK 
import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()

message = client.messages.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-1",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(message.content[0].text)

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