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| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starting Price | — | $0.25/1M tokens |
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Processes video files natively (not as frame extraction + text model) to understand temporal sequences, motion, scene changes, and narrative flow. The API accepts video inputs directly and performs joint reasoning across visual frames, audio tracks, and temporal context in a single forward pass, enabling detection of events that require understanding of change over time rather than static image analysis.
Unique: Processes video as a native modality with temporal reasoning built into the model architecture, rather than extracting frames and processing them independently through a text-with-vision model. This enables understanding of motion, scene transitions, and events that require temporal context.
vs alternatives: Differs from frame-extraction approaches (used by most vision APIs) by maintaining temporal coherence, enabling detection of motion-dependent events and narrative understanding that single-frame analysis cannot achieve.
Analyzes audio content to extract meaning, emotion, intent, and semantic information rather than just converting speech to text. The API processes audio signals to understand speaker intent, emotional tone, background context, and non-speech audio elements (music, ambient sounds, effects) in a unified model, returning structured semantic understanding rather than transcription-only output.
Unique: Integrates audio understanding as a first-class modality in the multimodal model rather than using separate speech-to-text + NLP pipelines. This enables joint reasoning across audio semantics, speaker intent, and emotional context in a single inference pass.
vs alternatives: Goes beyond speech-to-text APIs (like Whisper or Google Cloud Speech-to-Text) by providing semantic understanding and emotion detection without requiring separate NLP models, reducing latency and improving coherence of multi-step analysis.
Extracts structured information from images, video, and audio content and returns it in a machine-readable format (JSON, CSV, etc.). The capability can extract entities, relationships, attributes, and other structured data without requiring manual annotation or separate extraction models, enabling automation of data collection from unstructured multimodal sources.
Unique: Structured extraction is performed by the unified multimodal model with schema-aware output generation, rather than separate extraction models per modality
vs alternatives: More flexible than OCR-based extraction (Tesseract, AWS Textract) because it understands semantic meaning and relationships, not just text recognition
Generates vector embeddings that represent content across video, image, audio, and text modalities in a shared embedding space, enabling semantic search and similarity matching across different input types. A single query (text, image, or audio) can retrieve relevant results from a database containing mixed media types, with embeddings computed through the same multimodal model ensuring semantic alignment across modalities.
Unique: Generates embeddings from a unified multimodal model that processes video, image, audio, and text, placing all modalities in the same vector space. This differs from approaches that use separate embedding models per modality or bolt vision onto text embeddings.
vs alternatives: Enables true cross-modal search (e.g., text query finding video results) by design, whereas most embedding APIs either handle single modalities or use separate embedding spaces that require alignment techniques.
Generates natural language descriptions of image content, including object identification, spatial relationships, scene context, and semantic meaning. The model analyzes visual input and produces human-readable captions that can range from short summaries to detailed descriptions, with the ability to customize caption length and detail level through API parameters.
Unique: Integrated as a native capability of the multimodal model rather than a separate vision-to-text pipeline, enabling consistent semantic understanding across the full multimodal context.
vs alternatives: Part of a unified multimodal model that can reason about images in context with video, audio, and text, whereas specialized captioning APIs (like AWS Rekognition or Google Vision) handle images in isolation.
Identifies and localizes objects within images by returning bounding box coordinates, class labels, and confidence scores. The model detects multiple object instances in a single image and provides spatial information enabling downstream applications to reference specific regions of interest, with support for custom object classes through prompt-based detection.
Unique: Integrated into the multimodal model architecture, enabling object detection to leverage context from video, audio, and text understanding rather than operating as an isolated vision task.
vs alternatives: Provides object detection as part of a unified multimodal system, whereas specialized detection APIs (YOLO, Faster R-CNN services) operate independently without cross-modal context.
Answers natural language questions about image and video content by analyzing visual information and generating contextual responses. The model accepts an image or video and a text question, then produces an answer that demonstrates understanding of visual content, spatial relationships, object properties, and temporal events (for video). Questions can range from factual identification to reasoning about relationships and implications.
Unique: Extends visual question answering to video with temporal reasoning, enabling questions about events, sequences, and changes over time rather than just static image content.
vs alternatives: Handles both images and video in a unified model with temporal understanding for video, whereas most VQA APIs (like Google Cloud Vision or AWS Rekognition) focus on static images.
Provides three distinct model variants (Reka Core, Reka Flash, Reka Edge) with different performance characteristics, latency profiles, and pricing tiers. Developers select the appropriate model based on their accuracy requirements, latency constraints, and cost budget, with each model supporting the full multimodal capability set but with different quality-speed-cost tradeoffs. Model selection is specified at API request time.
Unique: Offers three explicit model tiers with documented multimodal capabilities across all tiers, rather than a single model or separate specialized models for different tasks.
vs alternatives: Provides explicit performance-cost tradeoff options at the API level, whereas most multimodal APIs offer a single model or require using different APIs entirely for different performance requirements.
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Implements a stateless Messages API that accepts JSON-formatted conversation turns with role-based message routing (user/assistant). Maintains conversation history within a single request payload, supporting up to 200,000 tokens of context per request. Returns streamed or buffered text responses with configurable max_tokens output limits. Handles multi-turn dialogue without server-side session state, requiring clients to manage conversation history.
Unique: 200K token context window is among the largest in the industry, enabling single-request processing of entire documents plus follow-up reasoning without context truncation. Stateless architecture shifts conversation management burden to client, enabling fine-grained control over history and cost optimization.
vs alternatives: Larger context window than GPT-4 (128K) and Gemini (1M but with higher latency), with stronger performance on code and reasoning tasks per Anthropic benchmarks, though requires explicit client-side conversation state management unlike OpenAI's stateful Assistants API
Implements a tool-calling system where Claude receives a JSON schema registry of available functions, generates structured tool_use blocks within responses, and can invoke multiple tools in parallel within a single turn. Supports 'strict' mode that enforces exact schema compliance, preventing hallucinated parameters. Tool results are fed back via user messages with tool_result blocks, creating a request-response loop. Integrates with prompt caching to avoid re-transmitting tool schemas on repeated calls.
Unique: Strict tool-calling mode prevents parameter hallucination by enforcing exact schema compliance at generation time, unlike OpenAI's function calling which can generate invalid parameters. Parallel tool invocation within a single turn enables multi-step workflows without intermediate round-trips.
vs alternatives: Stricter schema enforcement than OpenAI's function calling (which allows hallucinated parameters), and native parallel tool support without requiring explicit agentic frameworks, though requires more client-side orchestration than managed agent platforms
Anthropic API scores higher at 76/100 vs Reka API at 55/100.
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Provides a 'code execution' tool that Claude can invoke to run Python code and receive output, enabling runtime verification of code correctness, testing of algorithms, and interactive problem-solving. Claude writes code, executes it, sees results, and iterates. Execution happens in a sandboxed environment with output captured and returned to Claude.
Unique: Code execution integrated as a native tool within Claude's reasoning loop, enabling iterative debugging and verification without client-side execution. Sandboxed environment isolates execution from host system.
vs alternatives: More integrated than external code execution services (Replit, Glitch) since it's built into the API; simpler than running code locally but with sandbox limitations
Provides a Files API endpoint for uploading documents (PDFs, text, images) that can be referenced in subsequent API calls. Files are stored server-side and can be used across multiple requests without re-uploading. Supports multipart form uploads and returns file IDs for reference. Integrates with vision and text processing to enable document analysis workflows.
Unique: Server-side file storage with reference-based access, enabling reuse across multiple requests without re-uploading. Integrates with vision and text processing for seamless document analysis.
vs alternatives: More convenient than embedding files in each request (reduces token usage and latency), but requires managing file IDs and lifecycle; comparable to OpenAI's file upload but with less documentation on retention and access control
Implements MCP as a standard for connecting external tools and data sources to Claude. MCP servers expose tools, resources, and prompts via a standardized protocol; Claude can invoke them through the tool-calling system. Anthropic provides MCP connectors for common services (databases, APIs, file systems) and supports custom MCP server implementations. Enables modular, reusable tool ecosystems without modifying Claude's core API.
Unique: Anthropic-originated MCP standard provides a vendor-neutral protocol for tool integration, enabling modular tool ecosystems that work across multiple AI platforms. Separates tool implementation from Claude API, enabling independent tool development and deployment.
vs alternatives: More standardized and modular than custom tool integration, but requires running separate MCP servers; comparable to OpenAI's custom GPT actions but with a standardized protocol designed for broader ecosystem adoption
Provides a stateful agent infrastructure where Claude maintains conversation state, event history, and tool execution context across multiple turns without client-side session management. Agents can be configured with system prompts, tools, and resource limits. Clients send messages and receive responses; the API handles state persistence, tool invocation, and event logging. Enables building complex, long-running agents without managing conversation history.
Unique: Server-side state management for agents, eliminating client-side conversation history management. Built-in event logging and audit trails enable compliance and debugging.
vs alternatives: Simpler than building custom agent state management, but less flexible than Messages API for custom workflows; comparable to OpenAI's Assistants API but with stronger emphasis on event logging and audit trails
Provides an embeddings endpoint that converts text into fixed-size vector representations (embeddings) suitable for semantic search, clustering, and similarity comparison. Embeddings capture semantic meaning, enabling finding similar documents or concepts without keyword matching. Integrates with external vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, etc.) for storage and retrieval.
Unique: Embeddings endpoint integrated into Anthropic API, enabling semantic search without separate embedding service. Works with any vector database for flexible storage and retrieval.
vs alternatives: Convenient for Claude users since it's integrated into the same API, but less specialized than dedicated embedding models (OpenAI, Cohere); requires external vector database unlike some all-in-one solutions
Supports streaming responses where Claude's output is returned incrementally as it's generated, rather than waiting for the complete response. Client receives chunks of text (or tool_use blocks) in real-time, enabling progressive display and reduced perceived latency. Streaming works with all API features (tool-calling, vision, structured outputs). Reduces time-to-first-token and enables cancellation of long-running requests.
Unique: Streaming integrated across all API features (tool-calling, vision, structured outputs), enabling progressive output without separate streaming endpoints. Reduces time-to-first-token and enables request cancellation.
vs alternatives: Comparable to OpenAI's streaming, but with better integration into tool-calling and structured outputs; simpler than building custom streaming infrastructure but requires more client-side complexity
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