Claude Agent SDK
Anthropic's official SDK for building production Claude agents
Open-source: Free— Pay for Claude API usage
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Feature breakdown
9 dimensionsStreaming responses
Yes
Tool / function calling
Yes
Multi-model support
No
TypeScript native
Yes
Managed infrastructure
No
Self-hostable
Yes
Built-in observability
Partial
Free / open-source
Yes
Multi-modal
Yes
Partial = available with limitations or on higher tiers
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✓ Best for
- ✓Teams building exclusively on Anthropic Claude and wanting the official SDK
- ✓Complex tool-calling agent workflows with strong TypeScript types
- ✓Production AI features where Claude-specific capabilities matter
✗ Skip it if
- ✗Teams who need to run multiple model providers
- ✗Non-TypeScript or non-Python codebases
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