Anthropic announced it was acquiring Stainless and bringing the Stainless team into Anthropic.
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Stainless built a developer-platform product for APIs: it generates idiomatic SDKs, MCP servers, and documentation from OpenAPI specs. The company was founded in 2022 in New York and announced in May 2026 that it was joining Anthropic, while winding down hosted Stainless products.
Primary product
API developer platform that generates SDKs, MCP servers, and docs from OpenAPI specs
Founded
2022
Headquarters
180 Varick St, Suite 1230, New York, NY 10014, United States
Team size
20-30
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / API SDK generation
Offices
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Business model
Leadership
Founder & CEO (through May 2026)
President / CTO
Head of Product Engineering
Head of Sales
Head of Marketing & DevRel
Devyn Greenberg
Head of Business Operations
Public materials emphasize craft, developer experience, high-quality APIs, and agent-friendly tooling; the tone is engineering- and product-quality oriented rather than perks-oriented.
Work style
Hybrid
Pricing
Tiered SaaS with Free, Starter, Pro, and Enterprise plans; monthly or annual billing, with invoicing/PO terms on higher tiers and size/API-based pricing signals.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Low seven figures ARR (around $1M as publicly reported in Dec 2024)
Estimated monthly visits
202.3K
Anthropic · May 2026
Anthropic announced it was acquiring Stainless, saying Stainless would extend Claude Platform capabilities and agent connectivity to APIs.
Stainless · May 2026
Stainless said it was joining Anthropic and would wind down all hosted Stainless products, including its SDK generator, with new signups and projects closed.
Stainless · Mar 2026
Stainless launched the Docs Platform in public beta, positioning it as a code-first, SDK-aware docs system for humans and agents.
Stainless · Jan 2026
Stainless said its CLI generator reached general availability, turning APIs into command-line tools with help text, completion, and agent-friendly workflows.
Stainless · Dec 2024
Stainless announced a $25M Series A led by a16z, with participation from Sequoia, The General Partnership, Felicis, Zapier, and MongoDB Ventures.