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Claude 3.5 Sonnet by Anthropic — Benchmarks, Pricing & Revi…

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic): Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic's mid-2024 balanced model that set a new standard for agentic coding tasks, achieving top resul…

What this reference supports

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is an Anthropic hosted model in the Claude 3.5 generation, positioned for coding, reasoning, and vision-enabled workflows at a mid-tier cost-latency profile. Implementation decisions should verify current context-window, feature, and snapshot availability per API tier rather than assuming parity across surfaces.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is attributed to Anthropic in ModelRefs' canonical registry. Tracked modalities: Text input and output, Image input. Primary use cases considered on ModelRefs: Coding assistants and code-review workflows; Vision-enabled document and screenshot understanding with measured quality targets.

This ModelRefs profile is Provisional and pending review — decision-support material, not a final or universal ranking. Confirm current behavior, access, pricing, limits, licensing, and lifecycle in Anthropic's own documentation, and evaluate Claude 3.5 Sonnet on representative workloads before implementation.

Benchmark & Evaluation

ModelRefs currently has partial, narrow benchmark coverage for Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Treat the available benchmark evidence as one input to the decision, not a guarantee that Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the strongest option for your workload, and evaluate it on representative workloads before selecting it.

  • No benchmark score is imported into this editorial record. Canonical benchmark runs and scores are governed separately with their own provenance and render only through those records; coverage in ModelRefs is currently narrow (partial), so any scored comparison must show its coverage limits.
  • ModelRefs holds canonical run evidence on software-engineering evaluation (SWE-bench); coverage is narrow and provider-reported evaluations are not independently reproduced here.

Implementation considerations

  • Pin a dated model snapshot for production and re-run task evaluations when the default advances.
  • Verify context-window and feature availability for your API tier and region rather than assuming parity across platforms.
  • Hosted through the Anthropic API and eligible cloud partners (per Anthropic's current documentation).
  • Feature flags, rate limits, and data-retention controls differ by platform and account; check the models overview for the current matrix.

Risks and limitations

  • Hosted-model behavior, quotas, pricing, and data controls can change without a client-side version pin unless a dated snapshot is used.
  • Provider-reported capabilities require task-specific evaluation before production reliance.

Source coverage

This reference is Provisional. Model behavior, access, pricing, limits, licensing, and lifecycle can change; verify the linked provider documentation and run task-specific evaluations before implementation.

Known coverage gaps:

  • Independent reproduction of provider-reported coding evaluations is not attached.
  • Snapshot-by-snapshot behavior and current rate-limit coverage need periodic review.

Sources

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