Hard facts side by side: free tiers, prices, limits, SDKs and privacy. Every value links to the official page it came from and is re-checked every week.
| Fact |  Anthropic (Claude API) |
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| Free tier | Trial credits New users receive a small amount of free credits to test the API. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Starting price | $2 per 1M input tokens Claude Sonnet 5.5; $10 per 1M output tokens (Haiku 4.5 from $1 input). Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Rate limit | 1,000 requests/min Start tier, Claude Sonnet 5.5 (2M input tokens/min); new orgs may start lower. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Size limit | 1M token context Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 (Haiku 4.5: 200K). Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Official SDKs | PythonJavaScript / TypeScript.NETGoJavaPHPRubySource, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| Trains on your data | No Inputs and outputs from the Anthropic API are not used for training by default. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| EU hosting | No Inference geo is only us or global; workspace (storage) geo is only us. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| Compliance | SOC 2ISO 27001HIPAASource, Sep 29, 2026 |
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