Claude 3 Sonnet
by AnthropicChatretired 2025-07-21
Claude 3 Sonnet is an ideal balance of intelligence and speed for enterprise workloads. Maximum utility at a lower price, dependable, balanced for scaled deployments.
- Context
- 200K tokens
- Max output
- 4,096 tokens
- Released
- 2024-03-04
- Weights
- Closed
anthropic/claude-3-sonnet · also seen as vertex_ai/claude-3-sonnet, vertex_ai/claude-3-sonnet@20240229
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-03-04
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image, PDF
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 200,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 4,096
- Providers
- 3
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 120.7 ± 5.7 against price
- Direct price range
- $3.00 in · $15 out per 1M tokens · 1 of 3 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2024-03-04
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-08-31
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured outputunknown
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefill
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $3.00 in / $15 out per 1M tokens at Vertex (Anthropic) on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026, the earliest refresh this model's headline price can be rebuilt from. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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