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Claude 3.5 Sonnet

by Anthropic· Released June 2024· Cutoff April 2024

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic's most intelligent model, balancing speed and cost while outperforming Claude 3 Opus on key benchmarks. It excels at nuanced tasks like coding, writing, and analysis with improved instruction following and safety.

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Input cost

$3.00 per 1M tokens

Output cost

$15.00 per 1M tokens

Context window

200K tokens

Max output

8192 tokens

Modalities

textimage

License

proprietary

Capabilities

Function CallingVisionCode GenerationStreamingJSON ModeTool UseMultilingual

Best For

Complex reasoning, coding, and content generation tasks requiring high intelligence and reliability.

Strengths

Top-tier performance on graduate-level reasoning and coding benchmarks
Fast inference speed for a frontier model
Strong instruction following and nuanced understanding
Excellent safety and alignment

Limitations

No image generation or multimodal output
Context window smaller than some competitors (e.g., Gemini 1.5 Pro)
Higher cost than smaller models like Claude 3 Haiku
Limited availability in some regions

Use Cases

Advanced code generation and debugging

Complex document analysis and summarization

Creative writing and content creation

Data extraction and structuring

Customer support automation

Research assistance and literature review

Legal and financial analysis

Improvements Over Previous Model

Outperforms Claude 3 Opus on most benchmarks despite being faster and cheaper
Improved coding performance: scores 92% on HumanEval vs 84% for Claude 3 Sonnet
Enhanced instruction following and nuanced task handling
Faster inference speed compared to Claude 3 Opus
Lower pricing: $3/M input tokens vs $15/M for Claude 3 Opus
Better vision capabilities with improved image understanding

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