Create a Message Batch

$ ant messages:batches create

POST/v1/messages/batches

Send a batch of Message creation requests.

The Message Batches API can be used to process multiple Messages API requests at once. Once a Message Batch is created, it begins processing immediately. Batches can take up to 24 hours to complete.

Learn more about the Message Batches API in our user guide

Parameters

--request: array of object{ custom_id, params }

Body param: List of requests for prompt completion. Each is an individual request to create a Message.

maxItems100000

minItems1

--user-profile-id: optional string

Header param: The user profile ID to attribute the requests in this batch to. Use when acting on behalf of a party other than your organization. Requires the user-profiles beta header. Applies to every request in the batch; an individual request whose user_profile_id body field conflicts with this header is errored.

Returns

message_batch: object{ id, archived_at, cancel_initiated_at, 7 more }

id: string

Unique object identifier.

The format and length of IDs may change over time.

archived_at: string

RFC 3339 datetime string representing the time at which the Message Batch was archived and its results became unavailable.

formatdate-time

cancel_initiated_at: string

RFC 3339 datetime string representing the time at which cancellation was initiated for the Message Batch. Specified only if cancellation was initiated.

formatdate-time

created_at: string

RFC 3339 datetime string representing the time at which the Message Batch was created.

formatdate-time

ended_at: string

RFC 3339 datetime string representing the time at which processing for the Message Batch ended. Specified only once processing ends.

Processing ends when every request in a Message Batch has either succeeded, errored, canceled, or expired.

formatdate-time

expires_at: string

RFC 3339 datetime string representing the time at which the Message Batch will expire and end processing, which is 24 hours after creation.

formatdate-time

processing_status: "in_progress" or "canceling" or "ended"

Processing status of the Message Batch.

One of the following:

"in_progress"

"canceling"

"ended"

request_counts: object{ canceled, errored, expired, 2 more }

Tallies requests within the Message Batch, categorized by their status.

Requests start as processing and move to one of the other statuses only once processing of the entire batch ends. The sum of all values always matches the total number of requests in the batch.

canceled: number

Number of requests in the Message Batch that have been canceled.

This is zero until processing of the entire Message Batch has ended.

errored: number

Number of requests in the Message Batch that encountered an error.

This is zero until processing of the entire Message Batch has ended.

expired: number

Number of requests in the Message Batch that have expired.

This is zero until processing of the entire Message Batch has ended.

processing: number

Number of requests in the Message Batch that are processing.

succeeded: number

Number of requests in the Message Batch that have completed successfully.

This is zero until processing of the entire Message Batch has ended.

results_url: string

URL to a .jsonl file containing the results of the Message Batch requests. Specified only once processing ends.

Results in the file are not guaranteed to be in the same order as requests. Use the custom_id field to match results to requests.

type: "message_batch"

Object type.

For Message Batches, this is always "message_batch".

Create a Message Batch

ant messages:batches create \
  --api-key my-anthropic-api-key \
  --request '{custom_id: my-custom-id-1, params: {max_tokens: 1024, messages: [{content: [{text: x, type: text}], role: user}], model: claude-opus-5}}'

{
  "id": "msgbatch_013Zva2CMHLNnXjNJJKqJ2EF",
  "archived_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "cancel_initiated_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "created_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "ended_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "expires_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "processing_status": "in_progress",
  "request_counts": {
    "canceled": 10,
    "errored": 30,
    "expired": 10,
    "processing": 100,
    "succeeded": 50
  },
  "results_url": "https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages/batches/msgbatch_013Zva2CMHLNnXjNJJKqJ2EF/results",
  "type": "message_batch"
}

Returns Examples

{
  "id": "msgbatch_013Zva2CMHLNnXjNJJKqJ2EF",
  "archived_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "cancel_initiated_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "created_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "ended_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "expires_at": "2024-08-20T18:37:24.100435Z",
  "processing_status": "in_progress",
  "request_counts": {
    "canceled": 10,
    "errored": 30,
    "expired": 10,
    "processing": 100,
    "succeeded": 50
  },
  "results_url": "https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages/batches/msgbatch_013Zva2CMHLNnXjNJJKqJ2EF/results",
  "type": "message_batch"
}