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Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Anthropic

Implementation guide · Claude 3.5 · 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-3.5-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-3.5-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-3.5-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

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingStructured OutputsCode Execution

About Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the latest in Anthropic's line of large language models, merges state-of-the-art reasoning, coding, and natural language understanding capabilities with advanced multi-modal processing. Released in October 2024, it excels in benchmarks against previous models and competitors, thanks to its scalable attention mechanisms and massive neural network architecture. Its dynamic routing enables specialization in various tasks, supporting applications from software development and data analysis to customer support and content creation. Users benefit from its "Artifacts" feature for real-time collaborative workflows and can access the model through platforms like Claude.ai and APIs at competitive pricing rates.

Model Specs

Released2024-06-20
Parameters70B
Context200K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2024-04

Provider

Anthropic
Anthropic

San Francisco, California, United States