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Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4

Released May 22, 2025 · knowledge cutoff 2025-03

Status
Superseded
Location
United States
Modality
Multimodal
Context window
200K
Max output
64K
Speed
Price ($/MTok in / out)
$3 / $15
Cost per task
Open weights
No
Benchmarks6 of 8 reported

MMLU-Pro

83.8%

GPQA Diamond

75.4%

SWE-bench Verified

72.7%

AIME (latest)

70.5%

Humanity's Last Exam

9.2%

LMArena Elo

1386

Terminal-Bench 2.1

ARC-AGI-2

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Fast enough to live inside an editor loop while still handling multi-file changes
  • Low-drama behavior — rarely over-reaches or rewrites what you didn't ask about
  • The default that most people never found a reason to upgrade from

Weaknesses

  • Loses coherence on runs measured in hours where the flagship holds
  • Settles for a plausible answer sooner on genuinely hard problems
For developers

API model strings

Not researched

Licence

Proprietary — weights not released

Retirement

No retirement announced

Lineage

No recorded predecessor

News