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Using the Anthropic API

To meet the demand for using the Anthropic API ecosystem, our API has added support for the Anthropic API format, with the base_url being https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic.

With simple configuration, you can integrate the capabilities of DeepSeek into the Anthropic API ecosystem.

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Use DeepSeek in Claude Code​

Please refer to Integrate with Claude Code.

Invoke DeepSeek Model via Anthropic API​

Install Anthropic SDK


pip install anthropic





Config Environment Variables


export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=${YOUR_API_KEY}





Invoke the API


import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()

message = client.messages.create(
model="deepseek-v4-pro",
max_tokens=1000,
system="You are a helpful assistant.",
messages=[
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Hi, how are you?"
}
]
}
]
)
print(message.content)





Note: When you pass an unsupported model name to DeepSeek's Anthropic API, the API backend will automatically map it to the deepseek-v4-flash model.

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Anthropic Model Mapping​

When you use the Anthropic API, we map the Claude model names you pass in:

Models starting with claude-opus are mapped to deepseek-v4-pro

Models starting with claude-haiku or claude-sonnet are mapped to deepseek-v4-flash

With this mapping, when using the developer mode of the new Claude Desktop APP, you can bypass the APP's model name restrictions by simply changing the base_url and api_key to connect to DeepSeek models.

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Anthropic API Compatibility Details​

This section lists the compatibility details of the DeepSeek API with the Anthropic API. For the full Anthropic API format definition, please refer to the official Anthropic API reference.

HTTP Header​

Field	Support Status
anthropic-beta	Ignored
anthropic-version	Ignored
x-api-key	Fully Supported

Simple Fields​

Field	Support Status
model	Use DeepSeek Model Instead
max_tokens	Fully Supported
container	Ignored
mcp_servers	Ignored
metadata	user_id is supported, others are ignored Please refer to Rate Limit & Isolation for more information about user_id parameter.
service_tier	Ignored
stop_sequences	Fully Supported
stream	Fully Supported
system	Fully Supported
temperature	Fully Supported (range [0.0 ~ 2.0])
thinking	Supported (budget_tokens is ignored)
output_config	Only effort is supported
top_k	Ignored
top_p	Fully Supported

Tool Fields​

tools​

Field	Support Status
name	Fully Supported
input_schema	Fully Supported
description	Fully Supported
cache_control	Ignored

tool_choice​

Value	Support Status
none	Fully Supported
auto	Supported (disable_parallel_tool_use is ignored)
any	Supported (disable_parallel_tool_use is ignored)
tool	Supported (disable_parallel_tool_use is ignored)

Message Fields​

Field	Variant	Sub-Field	Support Status
content	string		Fully Supported
array, type="text"	text	Fully Supported
cache_control	Ignored
citations	Ignored
array, type="image"		Not Supported
array, type = "document"		Not Supported
array, type = "search_result"		Not Supported
array, type = "thinking"		Supported
array, type="redacted_thinking"		Not Supported
array, type = "tool_use"	id	Fully Supported
input	Fully Supported
name	Fully Supported
cache_control	Ignored
array, type = "tool_result"	tool_use_id	Fully Supported
content	Fully Supported
cache_control	Ignored
is_error	Ignored
array, type = "server_tool_use"		Supported
array, type = "web_search_tool_result"		Supported
array, type = "code_execution_tool_result"		Not Supported
array, type = "mcp_tool_use"		Not Supported
array, type = "mcp_tool_result"		Not Supported
array, type = "container_upload"		Not Supported

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