With Anthropic API Citations aligned responses to source documents allow developers to create results that remain accurate and trustworthy along with being verifiable. Citations enables integration through Anthropic API and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI to deliver improved AI applications across industries by following source documentation paths.
What is Citations?
Citations represents the latest functionality that allows Claude models to identify and reference particular text segments within documents that users directly supply. This ensures outputs are rooted in reliable sources, addressing a critical challenge in AI: trust through verification.
Development teams used complex sourcing prompts prior to Citations that makes source discovery automatic from supplied documentation. Test results demonstrate information recall rates can reach 15% higher than implementations developed independently by a user base.
Key Use Cases
- Document Summarization: Condense lengthy documents like legal case files, linking every key point to its source.
- Complex Q&A: Answer detailed queries across extensive databases, such as financial statements, with cited references.
- Customer Support: Build support systems referencing manuals, FAQs, and tickets while always citing exact sources.
How Citations Works
- Chunking Documents: The API processes PDFs or plain text by breaking them into sentences or user-provided chunks.
- Integrated Analysis: Claude analyzes queries and generates responses with precise citations tied to the document chunks.
- Seamless Integration: Citations is integrated with the Messages API and eliminates the need for file storage.
This approach minimizes hallucinations, increases accuracy, and ensures ease of use for developers.
Pricing
Citations follow Anthropic’s standard token-based pricing model, with no additional cost for output tokens containing quoted text.
Customer Success Stories
- Thomson Reuters – CoCounsel for Legal Professionals
Citations enables accurate and thorough legal AI assistance by citing primary sources, reducing hallucination risks, and building trust.
“Citations made deploying reliable and accurate AI easier, enhancing trust for our attorney users,” said Jake Heller, Head of Product at CoCounsel. - Endex – Financial Research Automation
Endex saw a 20% increase in references per response and eliminated source hallucinations, boosting accuracy in financial research.
“Anthropic’s Citations improved our multi-stage financial analysis while simplifying prompt engineering,” said Tarun Amasa, CEO of Endex.
