Claude Sonnet 4

Newer version available: Claude Sonnet 5.5

Released
2025-05-22
Last refreshed
2026-10-18
Status
Researched 27d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionClassificationJSON / Tool use
Anthropic releases · 16 in the last 12 monthsChangelog →
Specifications
Family
Claude 4
Released
2025-05-22
Context
200K
Max output
64K
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by

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San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2021
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider pricing is available yet.

About

Claude Sonnet 4 API snapshot (claude-sonnet-4-20250514) is deprecated and scheduled to retire from Anthropic-operated platforms on June 15, 2026. Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 for current integrations.

Providers(1)

Compare API pricing across 1 tracked provider route for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
GCP Vertex AI--
ServerlessPartial

Deprecated provider routes(6)

ProviderStatusCatalog ID
Anthropic
DeprecatedRetired June 15, 2026
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
Snowflake Cortex
DeprecatedRetired October 14, 2026
claude-4-sonnet
AWS Bedrock
DeprecatedRetired October 14, 2026
anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0
Replicate API
Deprecated
anthropic/claude-4-sonnet
OpenRouter
DeprecatedRetired June 15, 2026
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4
Vercel AI Gateway
DeprecatedRetired June 15, 2026
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4

Available via routers & gateways(15)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

Free OSSAnthropicGCP Vertex AI

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.

Passthrough + feeAnthropicGCP Vertex AI

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.

SubscriptionAnthropicGCP Vertex AI

AIRouter

Router

Commercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.

SubscriptionAnthropicGCP Vertex AI

Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing

Router

AWS Bedrock's native prompt router that predicts each model's performance per request and routes between two models of the same family (Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama or Amazon Nova).

Passthrough + feeAWS Bedrock

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

SubscriptionAnthropicGCP Vertex AI

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

Benchmark scores(6)

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—
74.4—Observed 2026-04-15—
83.7—Observed 2026-04-14—
72.7—Observed 2025-05-14—
1342.0text creative_writing 2026-10-22Observed 2026-10-22
Configuration: Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena Text arena, Creative Writing category (no style control), board published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, text config, latest split). Board entry 'Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)' (category creative_writing in text/latest-00000-of-00001.parquet): rank 179 of 416, rating 1342.0 (95% CI 1333.1-1350.9), 4910 votes. Other board entries for this model, not used: 'Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking 32K, 20250514)' 1344.8 (rank 174). Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

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