/v1/messages [BETA]

LiteLLM provides a BETA endpoint in the spec of Anthropic's /v1/messages endpoint.

This currently just supports the Anthropic API.

Feature	Supported	Notes
Cost Tracking	✅
Logging	✅	works across all integrations
End-user Tracking	✅
Streaming	✅
Fallbacks	✅	between anthropic models
Loadbalancing	✅	between anthropic models

Planned improvement:

• Vertex AI Anthropic support
• Bedrock Anthropic support

Usage

PROXY

1. Setup config.yaml

model_list:
    - model_name: anthropic-claude
      litellm_params:
        model: claude-3-7-sonnet-latest

2. Start proxy

litellm --config /path/to/config.yaml

3. Test it!

curl -L -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/messages' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-H 'x-api-key: $LITELLM_API_KEY' \
-H 'anthropic-version: 2023-06-01' \
-d '{
  "model": "anthropic-claude",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": "List 5 important events in the XIX century"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 4096
}'

SDK

from litellm.llms.anthropic.experimental_pass_through.messages.handler import anthropic_messages
import asyncio 
import os 

# set env 
os.environ["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"] = "my-api-key"

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, can you tell me a short joke?"}]

# Call the handler
async def call(): 
    response = await anthropic_messages(
        messages=messages,
        api_key=api_key,
        model="claude-3-haiku-20240307",
        max_tokens=100,
    )

asyncio.run(call())