Claude 3.5 Sonnet
The model that made coding agents viable — still a top pick.
At a glance
- Context window
- 200k tokens
- Max output
- 8k tokens
- Input price
- $3.00 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $15.00 / 1M tokens
- Time to first token
- 0.9s
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- text
- License
- Proprietary
- Provider
- Anthropic
Benchmark scores
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- Excellent at code
- Strong writing
- Long context
- Superseded by Claude 4 Sonnet for new builds
- Coding tasks
- Long-form writing
- Agentic workflows
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