Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
Anthropic's balanced model striking ideal equilibrium between intelligence and speed for enterprise workloads. Released March 2024 alongside Opus and Haiku in Claude 3 family. Delivers 2x faster performance than Claude 2/2.1 with higher intelligence levels. Excels at tasks demanding rapid responses like knowledge retrieval or sales automation. Strong performance at lower cost compared to peers, engineered for high endurance in large-scale AI deployments. Features 200K context window and sophisticated vision capabilities processing photos, charts, graphs, technical diagrams. Positioned between Haiku (speed) and Opus (capability).
Strengths
- Ideal balance of intelligence and speed for enterprise workloads
- 2x faster than Claude 2/2.1 while delivering higher intelligence
- 200K context window for large document processing
- Sophisticated vision capabilities - photos, charts, graphs, diagrams
- Lower cost than Opus while maintaining strong performance ($3 vs $15 input)
- Engineered for high endurance in large-scale deployments
- Excellent for knowledge retrieval and rapid-response applications
Caveats
- Lower ceiling than Claude 3 Opus for most complex tasks
- Superseded by Claude 3.5 Sonnet (June 2024) with better performance
- August 2023 knowledge cutoff older than competitors
- 4K max output tokens lower than newer models
- More expensive than Claude 3 Haiku for speed-critical tasks ($3 vs $0.25)
- Vendor
- Anthropic
- Context Window
- 200,000 tokens
- Max Output
- 4,096 tokens
- License
- Proprietary
- Release Date
- 2024-03-04
- Modalities
- textimage
| Benchmark | Score | Max |
|---|---|---|
| livebench_language | 38.1 | 100.0 |
| livebench_coding | 26.4 | 100.0 |
| livebench_instruction_following | 63.6 | 100.0 |
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
$3.00 per 1M input tokens, $15.00 per 1M output tokens