anthropic 0.92.0

The official Python library for the anthropic API

Claude SDK for Python

The Claude SDK for Python provides access to the Claude API from Python applications.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/sdks/python.

Installation

pip install anthropic

Getting started

import os
from anthropic import Anthropic

client = Anthropic(
    api_key=os.environ.get("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)

message = client.messages.create(
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Hello, Claude",
        }
    ],
    model="claude-opus-4-6",
)
print(message.content)

Requirements

Python 3.9+

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.