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Anthropic·Claude

Claude Sonnet 4

The balanced Claude 4 tier with stronger coding, reasoning, instruction following, and parallel tool use.

LegacyReasoningCodingAgentMultimodalWeights not released
MODEL NUMBER046
Release date
2025-05-22
Organization
Anthropic
Family
Claude
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Specifications

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Context
200K
Input modalities
Text · Image
Open weights
No
Status
Legacy
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Overview

Overview

The balanced Claude 4 tier with stronger coding, reasoning, instruction following, and parallel tool use.

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Changes from predecessor

Compared with Claude Opus 4

PreviousClaude Opus 4 · 200K ctx
CurrentClaude Sonnet 4 · 200K ctx
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Architecture & capabilities

Key capabilities

CodingTool useExtended thinking
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Release history

General release

Claude Sonnet 4 launched as the balanced Claude 4 tier.

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Sources