Claude Instant 1.2 on AWS Bedrock

Name: Claude Instant 1.2 on AWS Bedrock
Brand: Anthropic
Price: 0.8 USD

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Why use Claude Instant 1.2 on AWS Bedrock?

AWS Bedrock offers Claude Instant 1.2 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.80/1M input tokens. AWS Bedrock is Amazon's fully managed foundation-model service, providing unified API access to top models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and other leading AI labs with built-in tools for RAG, fine-tuning, and AI agent development.

Compare Claude Instant 1.2 across 2 providers to find the best fit for your use case

Input / 1M

$0.80

Output / 1M

$2.40

Cache

Not sourced

Batch

Not sourced

Setup recipe

Python + curl

Install

pip install boto3

Auth

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...

Call

import boto3
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
    modelId="claude-instant-1.2",

Model ID

claude-instant-1.2

Request example

import boto3

# Reads AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION from env
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
    modelId="claude-instant-1.2",
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": [{"text": "Hello"}]
    }]
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])

Gotchas

Use Amazon Bedrock model IDs, e.g. "anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0" for on-demand, or cross-region inference profile IDs like "us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-7-20251101-v1:0". These differ from the public model slug.
The endpoint template includes a region segment; set the same region in your SDK/client configuration.
The examples expect AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.

Compare Claude Instant 1.2 Across Providers

Provider	Input (per 1M)	Output (per 1M)
AWS Bedrock	$0.80	$2.40
Anthropic	$0.80	$2.40

Pricing

Type	Price (per 1M)
Input tokens	$0.80
Output tokens	$2.40

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

About Claude Instant 1.2

Claude Instant 1.2, developed by Anthropic, is a large language model that offers a faster and more economical alternative to Claude 2. Although it is smaller, it supports a robust context window of 100,000 tokens, making it adept at handling lengthy documents. Significant upgrades from its predecessor include enhanced math and coding capabilities, illustrated by higher scores in Codex and GSM8K benchmarks. Additionally, it generates longer and more structured responses, with improved quote extraction and multilingual skills, while also being more resistant to safety threats and hallucinations. Available primarily through Anthropic's API, Claude Instant 1.2 prioritizes speed and affordability for business applications, despite lacking some advanced features like PDF parsing found in Claude 2.