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Anthropic API vs PocketBase

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Open-source backend in a single Go binary

Anthropic website ↗PocketBase (OSS) ↗

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 ↗

PocketBase

Self-Hosted
MIT-licensed single binary. Run on any VPS / Docker / bare metal. No usage caps — only limited by your server.
$0 base (usage-based)
PocketBase (OSS) ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs self-hosted on PocketBase.

MetricAnthropic APIPocketBase
discount batch50 % off—

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    PocketBase · 12 features

    • Access Rules — Record-level access rules (filter expressions) referencing @request and @collect…
    • Admin Dashboard — Built-in web UI for schema + data management.
    • Auth — Email+password, OAuth2 (Google, GitHub, Facebook, Apple, Discord, Microsoft, etc…
    • Backups — Built-in backup/restore with S3 upload option.
    • Built-in Mailer — SMTP integration for verification, password reset, magic link emails.
    • Collections — Schema-defined record types with fields, validations, and record/admin/auth acce…
    • Embedded JS Engine — JavaScript VM (goja) lets you write hooks in JS without recompiling.
    • Extend as Go Library — Embed PocketBase in a larger Go app, add custom routes and events.
    • File Storage — Local filesystem or S3-compatible storage with access rules.
    • Hooks — Server-side Go or JavaScript hooks that run on CRUD events (OnRecordBeforeCreate…
    • Migrations — JS/Go migration scripts applied on startup.
    • Realtime Subscriptions — SSE-based subscriptions to collection changes.

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APIPocketBase
    CLIClaude Code CLI—
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)Go API (extend as library), pocketbase (Dart), pocketbase (JS SDK)
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)REST API
    OTHER—Admin Dashboard, Realtime SSE
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