Anthropic API
Provider 
Founded 2021
Sells To Enterprises
Pricing Model Recurring, Usage-based
Ownership Venture Capital

Anthropic's API for calling Claude models directly, the frontier-model counterpart to OpenRouter's multi-provider routing.
Anthropic's API gives developers direct access to Claude, Anthropic's family of frontier large language models, through a REST interface for chat, completions, and tool use.
It is the model-provider counterpart to OpenRouter's multi-provider gateway: teams that standardize on Claude can call it directly, but lose the single-key, multi-model routing and price comparison that OpenRouter adds across providers.
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| Attribute | Anthropic API | API Platform | Gemini API | Mistral Studio | OpenAI API | OpenRouter — Unified LLM API Gateway | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | |||||||
| Founded | 2021 | 2023 | 1998 | 2023 | 2015 | 2023 | |
| Sells To | Enterprises | Enterprises | Consumers, Enterprise | Enterprises | Enterprises, Individuals | Developer | |
| Pricing Model | Recurring, Usage-based | Subscription | Advertising, Recurring, Transactional | Subscription, Usage-based | Subscription, Usage-based | Usage-based | |
| Ownership | Venture Capital | Private | Public | Private | Private, Public Benefit Corporation | Venture-backed private company |
Provider 
Founded 2021
Sells To Enterprises
Pricing Model Recurring, Usage-based
Ownership Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 2023
Sells To Enterprises
Pricing Model Subscription
Ownership Private
Provider 
Founded 1998
Sells To Consumers, Enterprise
Pricing Model Advertising, Recurring, Transactional
Ownership Public
Provider 
Founded 2023
Sells To Enterprises
Pricing Model Subscription, Usage-based
Ownership Private
Provider 
Founded 2015
Sells To Enterprises, Individuals
Pricing Model Subscription, Usage-based
Ownership Private, Public Benefit Corporation