Create a Text Completion
[Legacy] Create a Text Completion.
The Text Completions API is a legacy API. We recommend using the Messages API going forward.
Future models and features will not be compatible with Text Completions. See our migration guide for guidance in migrating from Text Completions to Messages.
ParametersExpand Collapse
max_tokens_to_sample: int
The maximum number of tokens to generate before stopping.
Note that our models may stop before reaching this maximum. This parameter only specifies the absolute maximum number of tokens to generate.
The model that will complete your prompt.
See models for additional details and options.
UnionMember0 = Literal["claude-opus-4-5-20251101", "claude-opus-4-5", "claude-3-7-sonnet-latest", 17 more]
The model that will complete your prompt.
See models for additional details and options.
claude-opus-4-5-20251101- Premium model combining maximum intelligence with practical performanceclaude-opus-4-5- Premium model combining maximum intelligence with practical performanceclaude-3-7-sonnet-latest- Deprecated: Will reach end-of-life on February 19th, 2026. Please migrate to a newer model. Visit https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/resources/model-deprecations for more information.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219- Deprecated: Will reach end-of-life on February 19th, 2026. Please migrate to a newer model. Visit https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/resources/model-deprecations for more information.claude-3-5-haiku-latest- Fastest and most compact model for near-instant responsivenessclaude-3-5-haiku-20241022- Our fastest modelclaude-haiku-4-5- Hybrid model, capable of near-instant responses and extended thinkingclaude-haiku-4-5-20251001- Hybrid model, capable of near-instant responses and extended thinkingclaude-sonnet-4-20250514- High-performance model with extended thinkingclaude-sonnet-4-0- High-performance model with extended thinkingclaude-4-sonnet-20250514- High-performance model with extended thinkingclaude-sonnet-4-5- Our best model for real-world agents and codingclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929- Our best model for real-world agents and codingclaude-opus-4-0- Our most capable modelclaude-opus-4-20250514- Our most capable modelclaude-4-opus-20250514- Our most capable modelclaude-opus-4-1-20250805- Our most capable modelclaude-3-opus-latest- Deprecated: Will reach end-of-life on January 5th, 2026. Please migrate to a newer model. Visit https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/resources/model-deprecations for more information.claude-3-opus-20240229- Deprecated: Will reach end-of-life on January 5th, 2026. Please migrate to a newer model. Visit https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/resources/model-deprecations for more information.claude-3-haiku-20240307- Our previous most fast and cost-effective
"claude-opus-4-5-20251101"
Premium model combining maximum intelligence with practical performance
"claude-opus-4-5"
Premium model combining maximum intelligence with practical performance
"claude-3-7-sonnet-latest"
High-performance model with early extended thinking
"claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219"
High-performance model with early extended thinking
"claude-3-5-haiku-latest"
Fastest and most compact model for near-instant responsiveness
"claude-3-5-haiku-20241022"
Our fastest model
"claude-haiku-4-5"
Hybrid model, capable of near-instant responses and extended thinking
"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001"
Hybrid model, capable of near-instant responses and extended thinking
"claude-sonnet-4-20250514"
High-performance model with extended thinking
"claude-sonnet-4-0"
High-performance model with extended thinking
"claude-4-sonnet-20250514"
High-performance model with extended thinking
"claude-sonnet-4-5"
Our best model for real-world agents and coding
"claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"
Our best model for real-world agents and coding
"claude-opus-4-0"
Our most capable model
"claude-opus-4-20250514"
Our most capable model
"claude-4-opus-20250514"
Our most capable model
"claude-opus-4-1-20250805"
Our most capable model
"claude-3-opus-latest"
Excels at writing and complex tasks
"claude-3-opus-20240229"
Excels at writing and complex tasks
"claude-3-haiku-20240307"
Our previous most fast and cost-effective
prompt: str
The prompt that you want Claude to complete.
For proper response generation you will need to format your prompt using alternating `
Human:and
Assistant:` conversational turns. For example:
"
Human: {userQuestion}
Assistant:"
See prompt validation and our guide to prompt design for more details.
An object describing metadata about the request.
user_id: Optional[str]
An external identifier for the user who is associated with the request.
This should be a uuid, hash value, or other opaque identifier. Anthropic may use this id to help detect abuse. Do not include any identifying information such as name, email address, or phone number.
Sequences that will cause the model to stop generating.
Our models stop on `"
Human:"`, and may include additional built-in stop sequences in the future. By providing the stop_sequences parameter, you may include additional strings that will cause the model to stop generating.
stream: Optional[Literal[false]]
Whether to incrementally stream the response using server-sent events.
See streaming for details.
temperature: Optional[float]
Amount of randomness injected into the response.
Defaults to 1.0. Ranges from 0.0 to 1.0. Use temperature closer to 0.0 for analytical / multiple choice, and closer to 1.0 for creative and generative tasks.
Note that even with temperature of 0.0, the results will not be fully deterministic.
top_k: Optional[int]
Only sample from the top K options for each subsequent token.
Used to remove "long tail" low probability responses. Learn more technical details here.
Recommended for advanced use cases only. You usually only need to use temperature.
top_p: Optional[float]
Use nucleus sampling.
In nucleus sampling, we compute the cumulative distribution over all the options for each subsequent token in decreasing probability order and cut it off once it reaches a particular probability specified by top_p. You should either alter temperature or top_p, but not both.
Recommended for advanced use cases only. You usually only need to use temperature.
Optional header to specify the beta version(s) you want to use.
UnionMember1 = Literal["message-batches-2024-09-24", "prompt-caching-2024-07-31", "computer-use-2024-10-22", 16 more]
ReturnsExpand Collapse
class Completion: …
id: str
Unique object identifier.
The format and length of IDs may change over time.
completion: str
The resulting completion up to and excluding the stop sequences.
The model that will complete your prompt.
See models for additional details and options.
UnionMember0 = Literal["claude-opus-4-5-20251101", "claude-opus-4-5", "claude-3-7-sonnet-latest", 17 more]
The model that will complete your prompt.
See models for additional details and options.
claude-opus-4-5-20251101- Premium model combining maximum intelligence with practical performanceclaude-opus-4-5- Premium model combining maximum intelligence with practical performanceclaude-3-7-sonnet-latest- Deprecated: Will reach end-of-life on February 19th, 2026. Please migrate to a newer model. Visit https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/resources/model-deprecations for more information.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219- Deprecated: Will reach end-of-life on February 19th, 2026. Please migrate to a newer model. Visit https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/resources/model-deprecations for more information.claude-3-5-haiku-latest- Fastest and most compact model for near-instant responsivenessclaude-3-5-haiku-20241022- Our fastest modelclaude-haiku-4-5- Hybrid model, capable of near-instant responses and extended thinkingclaude-haiku-4-5-20251001- Hybrid model, capable of near-instant responses and extended thinkingclaude-sonnet-4-20250514- High-performance model with extended thinkingclaude-sonnet-4-0- High-performance model with extended thinkingclaude-4-sonnet-20250514- High-performance model with extended thinkingclaude-sonnet-4-5- Our best model for real-world agents and codingclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929- Our best model for real-world agents and codingclaude-opus-4-0- Our most capable modelclaude-opus-4-20250514- Our most capable modelclaude-4-opus-20250514- Our most capable modelclaude-opus-4-1-20250805- Our most capable modelclaude-3-opus-latest- Deprecated: Will reach end-of-life on January 5th, 2026. Please migrate to a newer model. Visit https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/resources/model-deprecations for more information.claude-3-opus-20240229- Deprecated: Will reach end-of-life on January 5th, 2026. Please migrate to a newer model. Visit https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/resources/model-deprecations for more information.claude-3-haiku-20240307- Our previous most fast and cost-effective
"claude-opus-4-5-20251101"
Premium model combining maximum intelligence with practical performance
"claude-opus-4-5"
Premium model combining maximum intelligence with practical performance
"claude-3-7-sonnet-latest"
High-performance model with early extended thinking
"claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219"
High-performance model with early extended thinking
"claude-3-5-haiku-latest"
Fastest and most compact model for near-instant responsiveness
"claude-3-5-haiku-20241022"
Our fastest model
"claude-haiku-4-5"
Hybrid model, capable of near-instant responses and extended thinking
"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001"
Hybrid model, capable of near-instant responses and extended thinking
"claude-sonnet-4-20250514"
High-performance model with extended thinking
"claude-sonnet-4-0"
High-performance model with extended thinking
"claude-4-sonnet-20250514"
High-performance model with extended thinking
"claude-sonnet-4-5"
Our best model for real-world agents and coding
"claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"
Our best model for real-world agents and coding
"claude-opus-4-0"
Our most capable model
"claude-opus-4-20250514"
Our most capable model
"claude-4-opus-20250514"
Our most capable model
"claude-opus-4-1-20250805"
Our most capable model
"claude-3-opus-latest"
Excels at writing and complex tasks
"claude-3-opus-20240229"
Excels at writing and complex tasks
"claude-3-haiku-20240307"
Our previous most fast and cost-effective
stop_reason: Optional[str]
The reason that we stopped.
This may be one the following values:
"stop_sequence": we reached a stop sequence — either provided by you via thestop_sequencesparameter, or a stop sequence built into the model"max_tokens": we exceededmax_tokens_to_sampleor the model's maximum
type: Literal["completion"]
Object type.
For Text Completions, this is always "completion".
import os
from anthropic import Anthropic
client = Anthropic(
api_key=os.environ.get("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"), # This is the default and can be omitted
)
completion = client.completions.create(
max_tokens_to_sample=256,
model="claude-opus-4-5-20251101",
prompt="\n\nHuman: Hello, world!\n\nAssistant:",
)
print(completion.id){
"id": "compl_018CKm6gsux7P8yMcwZbeCPw",
"completion": " Hello! My name is Claude.",
"model": "claude-2.1",
"stop_reason": "stop_sequence",
"type": "completion"
}Returns Examples
{
"id": "compl_018CKm6gsux7P8yMcwZbeCPw",
"completion": " Hello! My name is Claude.",
"model": "claude-2.1",
"stop_reason": "stop_sequence",
"type": "completion"
}