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Using Claude 3 Sonnet on Anthropic

Implementation guide · Claude 3 · Anthropic

Serverless

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Anthropic and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Anthropic SDK or REST API to call claude-3-sonnet — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $3.00/1M input, $15.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install anthropic
API key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
Model ID
claude-3-sonnet

Use the versioned model ID, e.g. "claude-sonnet-4-6" or "claude-opus-4-7-20251101".

import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()  # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-3-sonnet",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(message.content[0].text)

About Anthropic

Creator of Claude AI models, accessed via the Anthropic API and the Anthropic Console (console.anthropic.com). The Console hosts the Workbench prompt playground, API keys, usage analytics, and team billing.

Anthropic is a safety-focused AI research company and creator of the Claude model family, offering API access through the Anthropic Console for text generation, analysis, and coding tasks.

Pricing on Anthropic

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$3.00
Output tokens$15.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningStructured OutputsCode Execution

About Claude 3 Sonnet

Claude 3 Sonnet by Anthropic is a versatile large language AI model, balancing intelligence and speed for diverse enterprise use cases. It is part of the Claude 3 family, positioned between the powerful Opus and the faster Haiku models. Sonnet excels in nuanced content creation, accurate summarization, and complex scientific query handling while also showcasing proficiency in non-English languages and coding tasks. Additionally, it enhances vision capabilities with exceptional skills in visual reasoning, such as interpreting charts, graphs, and transcribing text from imperfect images, which benefits industries like retail, logistics, and finance. Operated at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet is efficient in context-sensitive customer support and multi-step workflows. It has achieved AI Safety Level 2 (ASL-2) and is accessible through multiple platforms, including Claude.ai, the Claude iOS app, the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI.

Model Specs

Released2024-03-04
Parameters70B
Context200K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-08

Provider

Anthropic
Anthropic

San Francisco, California, United States