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Overview

AnthropicLLMService provides integration with Anthropic’s Claude models, supporting streaming responses, function calling, and prompt caching with specialized context handling for Anthropic’s message format and advanced reasoning capabilities.

Anthropic LLM API Reference

Pipecat’s API methods for Anthropic Claude integration

Example Implementation

Complete example with function calling

Anthropic Documentation

Official Anthropic API documentation and features

Anthropic Console

Access Claude models and API keys

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Installation

To use Anthropic services, install the required dependency: 
pip install "pipecat-ai[anthropic]"

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Prerequisites

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Anthropic Account Setup

Before using Anthropic LLM services, you need:
  1. Anthropic Account: Sign up at Anthropic Console
  2. API Key: Generate an API key from your console dashboard
  3. Model Selection: Choose from available Claude models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, etc.)

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Required Environment Variables

  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: Your Anthropic API key for authentication