Claude 3.5 Sonnet at a glance
Claude 3.5 Sonnet ran twice as fast as Claude 3 Opus at $3/$15 per 1M tokens, solved 64% of problems in Anthropic's agentic coding eval, and launched with Artifacts on claude.ai.
What changed with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet on June 20, 2024, the first model in its Claude 3.5 family. It ran at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus at the cost of the mid-tier model: $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with a 200K-token context window. Anthropic’s news page now lists the post as June 21, 2024, but the launch went out on June 20, as Anthropic’s post on X and an archived copy of the page from that day show.
In Anthropic's internal agentic coding evaluation, it solved 64% of problems versus 38% for Claude 3 Opus. It was free on claude.ai and the iOS app, with higher limits for Pro and Team plans, and available in the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Claude.ai also gained Artifacts, a side panel for viewing and editing generated code, documents and designs.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet benchmarks and pricing
Values are copied from the linked source on the date shown. They are not IA Compa measurements.
- Input price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Input price per 1M tokens: anthropic.com (opens in a new tab)
- $3
- Output price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Output price per 1M tokens: anthropic.com (opens in a new tab)
- $15
- Context windowas of · Source for Context window: anthropic.com (opens in a new tab)
- 200K tokens
How it compares
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Where to compare Claude 3.5 Sonnet
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Why Claude 3.5 Sonnet matters for businesses
For businesses, Claude 3.5 Sonnet became a default choice for coding and agent work because it paired top-tier quality with mid-tier pricing.
Sources for this story
- Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet (post on X, June 20, 2024) (opens in a new tab)Official
Anthropic on X · x.com
- Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet (opens in a new tab)Official
Anthropic · anthropic.com
- Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet (archived June 20, 2024) (opens in a new tab)Official
Anthropic via Internet Archive · web.archive.org
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet (June) model page (opens in a new tab)Benchmark
Artificial Analysis · artificialanalysis.ai
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