Claude Sonnet 4

Claude Sonnet 4 is a general-purpose model for coding and knowledge work from Anthropic. Call claude-sonnet-4-20250514 through MixRoute’s Anthropic-compatible Messages API; the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API is also supported.

Key capabilities

Messages API - Native Anthropic request and response format
OpenAI-compatible - Also works through Chat Completions
Streaming - Incremental output through SSE
System prompts - Top-level system instructions
Tool use - Supports Anthropic tool definitions

Quick example

Messages API

cURL
Python
Streaming

curl "https://api.mixroute.ai/v1/messages" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
  "max_tokens": 256,
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Explain quantum entanglement in simple terms."
    }
  ]
}'

from anthropic import Anthropic

client = Anthropic(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.mixroute.ai")

message = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    max_tokens=256,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum entanglement in simple terms."}],
)

print(message.content[0].text)

from anthropic import Anthropic

client = Anthropic(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.mixroute.ai")

with client.messages.stream(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    max_tokens=256,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a short poem about the sea."}],
) as stream:
    for text in stream.text_stream:
        print(text, end="")

OpenAI-compatible API

cURL
Python
Streaming

curl "https://api.mixroute.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Explain quantum entanglement in simple terms."
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 256
}'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.mixroute.ai/v1")

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum entanglement in simple terms."}],
    max_tokens=256,
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.mixroute.ai/v1")

stream = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a short poem about the sea."}],
    max_tokens=256,
    stream=True,
)

for chunk in stream:
    print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content or "", end="")

Parameters

Messages API

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`model`	string	Yes	Must be `claude-sonnet-4-20250514`.
`messages`	array	Yes	Input messages with role and content.
`max_tokens`	integer	Yes	Maximum tokens to generate.
`system`	string \| array	No	Top-level system instruction.
`stream`	boolean	No	Enable SSE streaming.
`tools`	array	No	Anthropic tool definitions.
`thinking`	object	No	Extended-thinking configuration when supported.

OpenAI-compatible API

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`model`	string	Yes	Must be `claude-sonnet-4-20250514`.
`messages`	array	Yes	Conversation messages with role and content.
`max_tokens`	integer	No	Maximum generated tokens.
`stream`	boolean	No	Enable SSE streaming. Default: false.
`temperature`	number	No	Sampling temperature when supported by the model.
`top_p`	number	No	Nucleus sampling threshold when supported.
`stop`	string \| array	No	Sequences that stop generation.
`tools`	array	No	OpenAI-compatible tool definitions.

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Model Introduction

Key capabilities

Quick example

Messages API

OpenAI-compatible API

Parameters

Messages API

OpenAI-compatible API

​Key capabilities

​Quick example

​Messages API

​OpenAI-compatible API

​Parameters

​Messages API

​OpenAI-compatible API

Key capabilities

Quick example

Messages API

OpenAI-compatible API

Parameters

Messages API

OpenAI-compatible API