Using Claude 3 Sonnet on AWS Bedrock

Implementation guide · Claude 3 · Anthropic

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AWS Bedrock exposes Claude 3 Sonnet through model ID claude-3-sonnet. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at AWS Bedrock and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the AWS Bedrock 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 boto3
API key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
Model ID
claude-3-sonnet

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.

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-3-sonnet",
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": [{"text": "Hello"}]
    }]
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])

Pricing on AWS Bedrock

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.

Model Specs

Released2024-03-04
Parameters70B
Context200k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-08

Provider

AWS Bedrock

Amazon Web Services

Seattle, Washington, United States