Anthropic API vs Continue

The Anthropic API provides programmatic access to Claude, Anthropic's family of AI language models including Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. It supports text generation, code generation, analysis, and tool use through a REST API and official SDKs for Python and TypeScript. The API uses token-based pricing with different rates for input and output tokens.

Continue is an open-source AI coding assistant that runs directly in your IDE, providing autocomplete, code generation, and refactoring suggestions powered by various LLM models. It offers privacy-preserving alternatives to cloud-based coding assistants.