Using Claude 3.7 Sonnet on GCP Vertex AI

Implementation guide · Claude 3.7 · Anthropic

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GCP Vertex AI exposes Claude 3.7 Sonnet through model ID claude-3-7-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
Create an account at GCP Vertex AI and generate an API key.
2
Use the GCP Vertex AI SDK or REST API to call claude-3-7-sonnet — see the documentation for request format.
3
You'll be billed $3.00/1M input, $15.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

API Portal Documentation Pricing

Code Examples

Install

pip install google-cloud-aiplatform

API key

GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT

Model ID

claude-3-7-sonnet

For Google-published models use the model name directly, e.g. "gemini-2.0-flash-001". For third-party publishers (Anthropic, Meta, etc.) use the full publisher path, e.g. "publishers/anthropic/models/claude-3-5-sonnet-v2@20241022".

import os
import vertexai
from vertexai.generative_models import GenerativeModel

# Reads GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT from env; authenticates via Application Default Credentials
vertexai.init(project=os.environ["GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT"], location="us-central1")
model = GenerativeModel("claude-3-7-sonnet")
response = model.generate_content("Hello")
print(response.text)