Claude 4 Sonnet

Released
2025-05-14
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched today
DeprecatedProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionClassificationJSON / Tool useHighlight

Claude 4 Sonnet is a legacy integration reference; evaluate Claude Sonnet 5.5 before starting new work.

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Specifications
Family
Claude 4
Released
2025-05-14
Context
200K
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2025-10
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
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 5.5.

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.

Providers(2)

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 tracked provider routes 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

VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useFine-tuning

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.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
68.52026-04 (with thinking)Observed 2026-04-14—
61.32026-04 (32k thinking tokens)Observed 2026-04-14—
83.7—Observed 2026-04-14—
72.7—Observed 2025-05-14—

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.