Magic.dev vs Claude API (Anthropic API)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Magic.dev
Coding-model research lab; nothing released yet
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Claude API (Anthropic API)
Anthropic's metered API for Claude Haiku, Sonnet, Opus and Fable
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.8 / 10 | 8.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Unknown | Usage_based |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | No product on sale, no price, API or waitlist published (Oct 2026) | From $0.10 per million input tokens (Claude Haiku 5.5, prompts up to 100K tokens) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | Anthropic |
| Verdict | Magic pursues ultra-long context, with LTM-2-mini trained on up to 100 million tokens, and by its own account compute-efficient pretraining, aimed at automating software engineering. The research write-ups are substantiv... |
The Claude API offers four current models with a 1M-token context window across the range, from Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens to Fable 5.1 at $10, plus published discounts that matter in practice: half pric... |
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