Anthropic Provider

The Anthropic provider contains language model support for the Anthropic Messages API.

Setup

The Anthropic provider is available in the @ai-sdk/anthropic module. You can install it with

pnpm add @ai-sdk/anthropic

Provider Instance

You can import the default provider instance anthropic from @ai-sdk/anthropic:

import { anthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';

If you need a customized setup, you can import createAnthropic from @ai-sdk/anthropic and create a provider instance with your settings:

import { createAnthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';

const anthropic = createAnthropic({
  // custom settings
});

You can use the following optional settings to customize the Anthropic provider instance:

• baseURL string

  Use a different URL prefix for API calls, e.g. to use proxy servers. The default prefix is https://api.anthropic.com/v1.

• apiKey string

  API key that is being send using the x-api-key header. It defaults to the ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable.

• headers Record<string,string>

  Custom headers to include in the requests.

• fetch (input: RequestInfo, init?: RequestInit) => Promise<Response>

  Custom fetch implementation. Defaults to the global fetch function. You can use it as a middleware to intercept requests, or to provide a custom fetch implementation for e.g. testing.

Language Models

You can create models that call the Anthropic Messages API using the provider instance. The first argument is the model id, e.g. claude-3-haiku-20240307. Some models have multi-modal capabilities.

const model = anthropic('claude-3-haiku-20240307');

The following optional settings are available for Anthropic models:

• cacheControl boolean

  Enable the Anthropic cache control beta.

  You can then use provider metadata to set cache control breakpoints (example)

Example: Generate Text

You can use Anthropic language models to generate text with the generateText function:

import { anthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';
import { generateText } from 'ai';

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: anthropic('claude-3-haiku-20240307'),
  prompt: 'Write a vegetarian lasagna recipe for 4 people.',
});

Anthropic language models can also be used in the streamText, generateObject, streamObject, and streamUI functions (see AI SDK Core and AI SDK RSC).

Example: Cache Control

You can enable the cache control beta by setting the cacheControl option to true when creating the model instance.

In the messages and message parts, you can then use the experimental_providerMetadata property to set cache control breakpoints. You need to set the anthropic property in the experimental_providerMetadata object to { cacheControl: { type: 'ephemeral' } } to set a cache control breakpoint.

The cache creation input tokens are then returned in the experimental_providerMetadata object for generateText and generateObject, again under the anthropic property. When you use streamText or streamObject, the response contains a promise that resolves to the metadata. Alternatively you can receive it in the onFinish callback.

import { anthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';
import { generateText } from 'ai';

const errorMessage = '... long error message ...';

const result = await generateText({
  model: anthropic('claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620', {
    cacheControl: true,
  }),
  messages: [
    {
      role: 'user',
      content: [
        { type: 'text', text: 'You are a JavaScript expert.' },
        {
          type: 'text',
          text: `Error message: ${errorMessage}`,
          experimental_providerMetadata: {
            anthropic: { cacheControl: { type: 'ephemeral' } },
          },
        },
        { type: 'text', text: 'Explain the error message.' },
      ],
    },
  ],
});

console.log(result.text);
console.log(result.experimental_providerMetadata?.anthropic);
// e.g. { cacheCreationInputTokens: 2118, cacheReadInputTokens: 0 }

You can also use cache control on system messages by providing multiple system messages at the head of your messages array:

const result = await generateText({
  model: anthropic('claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620', {
    cacheControl: true,
  }),
  messages: [
    {
      role: 'system',
      content: 'Cached system message part',
      experimental_providerMetadata: {
        anthropic: { cacheControl: { type: 'ephemeral' } },
      },
    },
    {
      role: 'system',
      content: 'Uncached system message part',
    },
    {
      role: 'user',
      content: 'User prompt',
    },
  ],
});

Model Capabilities

See also Anthropic Model Comparison.