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Claude 3 Sonnet

by Anthropic· Released March 2024· Cutoff August 2023

Claude 3 Sonnet is a balanced model in Anthropic's Claude 3 family, offering a strong combination of speed and intelligence for most enterprise workloads. It is ideal for tasks requiring nuanced understanding, rapid responses, and reliable performance at a lower cost than Opus.

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Input cost

$3.00 per 1M tokens

Output cost

$15.00 per 1M tokens

Context window

200K tokens

Max output

4096 tokens

Modalities

textimage

License

proprietary

Capabilities

Function CallingVisionCode GenerationStreamingJSON ModeMultilingual SupportTool Use

Best For

Balanced performance for enterprise workloads requiring speed, intelligence, and cost-efficiency.

Strengths

Strong reasoning and nuanced understanding
Fast inference speed suitable for real-time applications
Cost-effective compared to Opus while maintaining high quality
Vision capabilities for image analysis

Limitations

Less capable than Opus on highly complex reasoning tasks
Smaller context window than some competitors (200K vs 1M+ tokens)
No audio or video input support
May not match Opus in creative writing depth

Use Cases

Customer support chatbots

Content generation and editing

Data extraction and analysis

Code generation and debugging

Document summarization

Image analysis and description

Multilingual translation

Improvements Over Previous Model

New model family with improved reasoning and coding capabilities over Claude 2
Context window increased from 100K to 200K tokens
Added vision/image input support
Faster inference speed compared to Claude 2
Lower pricing than Claude 2 ($3/M input vs $8/M input)
Improved multilingual performance
Better instruction following and reduced hallucination rates

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