Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- Fast
- Vision
- 200K Context
Claude 3.5 Sonnet sets new industry benchmarks for intelligence, coding, and reasoning. With a 200K token context window and strong safety properties, it's ideal for enterprise applications requiring reliability and nuance.
About the model
Claude 3.5 Sonnet — Intelligence at Scale
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic’s most intelligent model, offering state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks, graduate-level reasoning, and instruction following. Built with Constitutional AI for safety and reliability.
The 200K context window makes it exceptional for processing entire codebases, long documents, and complex research papers in a single prompt.
Core capabilities
What Claude 3.5 Sonnet can do
Use cases
Enterprise-grade applications
- Software Development
- Legal Document Review
- Research Analysis
- Data Extraction
- Enterprise Chatbots
- Technical Writing
Pricing
API Pricing Comparison
All prices shown per 1 million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers the best intelligence-to-cost ratio in its class.
| Provider | Region | Latency | Throughput | Uptime | Input ($/1M) | Output ($/1M) | Context |
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| Anthropic (direct) | Global | 290ms | 100 tok/s | 99.95% | $3.00/1M | $15.00/1M | 200K |
| LLMAPI BEST | Global | 260ms | 140 tok/s | 99.99% | $2.70/1M | $13.50/1M | 200K |
| AWS Bedrock | US East | 350ms | 80 tok/s | 99.9% | $3.00/1M | $15.00/1M | 200K |
Performance benchmarks
Technical Specifications
| Metric | Specification | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200,000 tokens | 200,000 tokens | |
| Max output | 8,192 tokens | 4,096 tokens | |
| Training cutoff | Apr 2024 | Aug 2023 | |
| Vision support | Yes | Yes |
Leading enterprises trust Claude
- 200K
- Context tokens
- 99.95%
- Uptime SLA
- #1
- Coding benchmark
- <300ms
- Avg latency
Architecture
Constitutional AI Foundation
Claude is built on Constitutional AI principles, ensuring safe, helpful, and honest responses.
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Constitutional AI Training
Trained with explicit principles to be helpful, harmless, and honest.
Safety -
Long Context Transformer
Efficient attention mechanisms enabling 200K token windows.
Context -
Multimodal Vision
Integrated visual understanding for images and documents.
Vision
Decision guide
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet right for you?
Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet when
- You need the best coding assistant available
- Processing very long documents (up to 200K tokens)
- Safety and reliability are critical requirements
- You need nuanced understanding of complex topics
Consider alternatives when
- You need audio input/output capabilities
- Budget is the primary concern (try Claude Haiku)
- You require real-time web search integration
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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How does Claude 3.5 Sonnet compare to GPT-4o?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o on most coding benchmarks and has a larger context window (200K vs 128K). GPT-4o has broader multimodal capabilities including audio.
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What is Constitutional AI?
Constitutional AI is Anthropic's training approach that gives Claude explicit principles to follow, making it more predictably safe and aligned with human values.
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Can I fine-tune Claude 3.5 Sonnet?
Fine-tuning is not currently available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet. However, you can achieve strong customization through system prompts and prompt engineering.
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