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Anthropic API vs Convex

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. The reactive database where queries are TypeScript code

Anthropic website ↗Convex website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Convex

Starter (Free)
Free with overage via usage-based billing. Great for prototypes.
Free
Professional
$25/developer/month. Overage: $2/M function calls. Daily backups, email support, custom domains.
$25/mo
Business / Enterprise
From $2,500/month. SAML/SSO, SLA, dedicated deployments, Slack Connect support.
$2500/mo
Convex website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs starter on Convex.

MetricAnthropic APIConvex
db storage gb—0.5 GB
deployments—40 deployments
discount batch50 % off—
egress gb month—1 GB/month
file storage gb—1 GB
function calls month—1000000 calls/month
team members—6 users

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Convex · 18 features

    • Actions — Non-deterministic functions for external I/O (fetch, AI APIs, email). Cannot rea…
    • Authentication — Convex Auth (built-in) or BYO provider (Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, WorkOS). ID tokens …
    • Convex Agents — AI agent framework with durable memory, threads, tool use. Works with OpenAI / A…
    • Convex Auth — First-party auth library: passwords, magic links, OAuth, phone — stored in your …
    • Convex Components — Reusable backend modules (rate limiter, workflow, aggregate, action-retrier, etc…
    • Cron Jobs — Recurring schedules defined in convex/crons.ts. UTC, cron-style patterns.
    • Durable Workflows — Long-running multi-step workflows with retries and at-least-once guarantees.
    • Exception Reporting — Auto-capture errors to Sentry, Axiom, Datadog.
    • File Storage — Upload/download via storage API. Returns storage IDs referenced in documents.
    • Full-Text Search — BM25 search index on table fields. withSearchIndex query helper.
    • HTTP Actions — Expose public HTTP endpoints for webhooks, OAuth callbacks, third-party integrat…
    • Log Streams — Stream function logs to Axiom, Datadog, Sentry. Pro+.
    • Mutations — Transactional write functions. All reads + writes in one mutation are ACID; conf…
    • Preview Deployments — Every Git branch gets its own isolated deployment. Integrates with Vercel/Netlif…
    • Queries — Deterministic read-only TS functions. Automatically cached and re-run when under…
    • Real-Time Subscriptions — useQuery auto-subscribes; server invalidates when data a query read changes. No …
    • Scheduler — schedule.after / schedule.at — enqueue functions to run later. Durable, survives…
    • Vector Search — Native vector index on tables. withIndex + filter fields. Up to 4096 dims.

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APIConvex
    CLIClaude Code CLIConvex CLI
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)Android / Kotlin Client, iOS / Swift Client, JavaScript/TypeScript Client, Next.js Integration, Python Client, React Client (useQuery), Rust Client, Svelte Client, Vue Client
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Deploy / Dashboard API, HTTP Actions
    OTHER—WebSocket Subscriptions
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