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Batch Processing
Processing a large number of AI requests together, on a schedule, rather than in real time. Instead of asking Claude to analyze each customer email the moment it arrives, you collect all the emails from the day and process them overnight. Batch processing is slower but significantly cheaper — Anthropic offers a 50% discount for batch API calls. The right approach when real-time responses aren't needed.
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In practice
You have 5,000 customer reviews and need a sentiment label on each one. Instead of running 5,000 individual API calls in real time, batch processing lets you send them all at once — Anthropic processes them asynchronously and you retrieve results later. It's slower but costs half as much.
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