Claude 3 Sonnet

Claims and evidence

• Released 4 March 2024 ● Primary source[1]Model availability
• Deprecated 21 January 2025 ● Primary source[3]Deprecation history, 2025-01-21 [4]January 21st, 2025
• Retired 21 July 2025 ● Primary source[3]Deprecation history, 2025-01-21 [4]July 21, 2025

• Status Retired ● Primary source[3]Deprecation history, 2025-01-21

• Successor of Claude 2.1 ● Primary source[1]title; Near-instant results

• Change · Modality Adds image input next to text, which the Claude 3 model card names as a key enhancement of the family; output remains text.Compared with Claude 2.1 ● Primary source[2]
• Change · Efficiency Anthropic says it is about twice as fast as Claude 2 and Claude 2.1 for most workloads.Compared with Claude 2.1 ● Primary source[1]
• Change · Safety Anthropic says the Claude 3 models refuse borderline but harmless prompts less often than earlier Claude models.Compared with Claude 2.1 ● Primary source[1]
• Change · Training data Knowledge cutoff of August 2023, according to the Claude 3 model card.Compared with Claude 2.1 ● Primary source[2]

• Input text, image ● Primary source[2]Abstract; 1 Introduction
• Output text ● Primary source[2]1 Introduction
• Context window 200K tokens ● Primary source[1]Model details
• Parameters Not disclosedNot disclosed by Anthropic. No claim madeNo source
• Access API, consumer app, cloud partner ● Primary source[1]Model availability

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