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Anthropic Console for direct Claude API access
Access decision +1.
- Category
- infrastructure
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Aliases
- anthropic developer console, claude console, anthropic api console
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-20
Key facts
- Need Anthropic's direct Claude API?
- Open the Console at platform.claude.com and use it as the API control plane.
- The older hostname console.anthropic.com redirects to that root. +2.
- Need credentials?
- Create API credentials in Console, then apply your preferred deployment and security flow. +3.
- Choosing a Claude model?
- Validate model and pricing at Anthropic API.
- For a current destination example, use Claude Fable 5. +4.
- Prototyping in-browser?
- Use Anthropic Workbench, an in-Console API-testing feature, not a separate model provider. +Anthropic Console is now the Claude Platform.
- It is not a separate inference provider, and it is not the consumer chat product at claude.ai.
- Related destination +- Anthropic API provider — model coverage and sourced pricing +- Claude Fable 5 — verified current model destination