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Migrate from Anthropic Console to Railwail

Move from the Anthropic SDK to Railwail in 5 minutes. Use the OpenAI SDK against Claude models. Same Claude, 200+ extra models.

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Migrate from Anthropic Console to Railwail
01 ยท Key takeaways

TL;DR โ€” Switch in Under 5 Minutes

  • Railwail supports the OpenAI Chat Completions API (/api/v1/chat/completions) for Claude models
  • Use the OpenAI SDK with model='claude-sonnet-4-6' โ€” one less dependency
  • Claude features supported: long context, tool use, vision
  • Access to 200+ other models behind the same key

Try it on Railwail

Run Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic$3.60/1M inBilled by actual usage

Anthropic's balanced mid-tier model from February 2026. Best price/performance for production workloads: 5x cheaper than Opus, near-flagship quality.

02

Why Move Off Anthropic Console Direct?

Anthropic's Claude is the gold standard for long-context reasoning, agentic workflows, and instruction following. But the Anthropic Console requires a separate SDK from your OpenAI integration. If your stack already speaks OpenAI Chat Completions, Railwail lets you keep using Claude with zero code refactor โ€” or with even less code than before.

Teams typically migrate when they want to unify Claude and GPT-4o calls under a single SDK.

03

Step 1 โ€” Get a Railwail API Key

Sign up at railwail.com, navigate to Dashboard โ†’ API Keys, click Create New Key. Sign up with Google to get 10 free credits ($0.10), usable 24 hours after sign-up.

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Step 2 โ€” Choose Your SDK Path

Use the OpenAI SDK

If you want one SDK across all models, replace @anthropic-ai/sdk with the OpenAI client. Railwail accepts Claude model IDs in standard chat.completions calls and handles the schema translation internally.

JavaScript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.RAILWAIL_API_KEY,
  baseURL: "https://railwail.com/api/v1",
});

const res = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "claude-sonnet-4-6",
  messages: [
    { role: "system", content: "You are concise." },
    { role: "user", content: "Hello Claude via OpenAI SDK" },
  ],
});
console.log(res.choices[0].message.content);

This path eliminates the Anthropic SDK dependency entirely. Most production teams prefer it because it works for GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini with the same client object.

cURL

Shell
curl https://railwail.com/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RAILWAIL_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello Claude"}],
    "max_tokens": 1024
  }'
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Step 3 โ€” Verify Tool Use and Streaming

Tool use translates correctly. With the OpenAI SDK, Railwail converts between OpenAI's tools/tool_calls schema and Anthropic's tool_use blocks transparently. Streaming SSE events are passed through in the native format of the OpenAI SDK.

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API Endpoint Mapping

Anthropic Console endpoint โ†’ Railwail equivalent
Anthropic directRailwail equivalentNotes
N/A โ€” direct onlyPOST /api/v1/chat/completions (model=claude-*)OpenAI-compatible alternative path
GET /v1/modelsGET /api/v1/modelsReturns all Railwail models
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Claude Model Mapping

Anthropic Console model โ†’ Railwail model ID
Anthropic ConsoleLive on RailwailRailwailNotes
claude-opus-4-5$6.00/1M inclaude-opus-4-8claude-opus-4-8Opus
claude-sonnet-4-5$3.60/1M inclaude-sonnet-4-6claude-sonnet-4-61M-context Sonnet, primary workhorse
claude-haiku-4-5$1.20/1M inclaude-haiku-4-5claude-haiku-4-5Fast, cheap, 200k context
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Why Railwail Over Anthropic Console

  • Access to GPT-4o and Gemini through the same key
  • Built-in playground to A/B Claude vs other models on real prompts
  • Tool use and vision preserved
  • Spend caps and per-key isolation for multi-tenant apps
09

FAQ

What about Anthropic's Workbench and the saved prompts?

Workbench is a separate UI feature of Anthropic Console. Railwail's playground at railwail.com/models offers one-click export to TypeScript/Python/cURL.

What happens if Anthropic upstream has an outage?

Railwail does not auto-fallback to a different model (that could silently change output quality). Most teams prefer explicit error handling.

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Next Steps

  • Create your Railwail account at railwail.com
  • Generate an API key in Dashboard โ†’ API Keys
  • Update one line: base_url
  • Browse the Claude models at railwail.com/models?provider=anthropic
  • Compare per-token pricing at railwail.com/pricing
Live

Models in this article

Live prices from Railwail's current rules, October 7, 2026.

  • $3.60 / 1M input tokens$18.00/1M out
    1K in + 500 out tokens: โ‰ˆ $0.0126
    Try
  • $1.20 / 1M input tokens$6.00/1M out
    1K in + 500 out tokens: โ‰ˆ $0.0042
    Try
  • $6.00 / 1M input tokens$30.00/1M out
    1K in + 500 out tokens: โ‰ˆ $0.021
    Try
  • GPT-4oOpenAI
    $3.00 / 1M input tokens$12.00/1M out
    1K in + 500 out tokens: โ‰ˆ $0.0090
    Try

โ‰ˆ billed by actual tokens or GPU time

Next step

Try Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Railwail

Sign in with Google for 10 free credits (usable 24 hours after sign-up, runs up to 2 credits), or top up from $5.00. Unused balance does not expire.

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