LLM Reference

Claude 4 Sonnet

Released
2025-05-14
Last refreshed
2026-05-15
Status
Researched 20d ago
DeprecatedMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionClassificationJSON / Tool useHighlight

Claude 4 Sonnet is a legacy integration reference; evaluate Claude Sonnet 4.6 before starting new work.

Use it for

  • Teams maintaining an existing integration
  • Workloads that can use a 200k context window
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • New production launches
Specifications
Family
Claude 4
Released
2025-05-14
Context
200k
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2025-10
Specialization
general
License
Proprietary
Training
finetuned
Fine-tuning
1
Created by

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San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2021
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$15.00
Input / 1M
$3.00

Cheapest of 2 routes · Replicate API

This model is deprecated. Anthropic recommends switching to Claude Sonnet 4.6.

About

Anthropic Claude 4 Sonnet API snapshot (claude-sonnet-4-20250514), deprecated April 14, 2026 with Claude API retirement scheduled for June 15, 2026. Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 for current integrations.

Claude 4 Sonnet is a model in the Claude 4 family. The structured metadata tracks a 200k-token context window, multimodal input, function calling, and tool use. This page tracks provider routes through Snowflake Cortex and Replicate API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $3 input and $15 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include LiveCodeBench 68.5, Aider Polyglot 61.3, and MMLU PRO 83.7.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

3 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Replicate API$3.00$15.00
Serverless
Snowflake Cortex--
ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool Use

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

Benchmark scores(4)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
LiveCodeBench68.52026-04 (with thinking)https://livecodebench.github.io/performances_generation.json
Aider Polyglot61.32026-04 (32k thinking tokens)https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards
MMLU PRO83.7https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro
SWE-bench Verified72.7https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Rankings & picks(3)