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Overview

Claude 3 Opus was released the same time Claude 3 Sonnet.

	Claude 3 Opus	Claude 3 Sonnet
Provider The entity that provides this model.	Anthropic	Anthropic
Input Context Window The number of tokens supported by the input context window.	200K tokens	200K tokens
Maximum Output Tokens The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request.	4,096 tokens	4,096 tokens
Release Date When the model was first released.	March 4th, 2024 4 months ago 2024-03-04	March 4th, 2024 4 months ago 2024-03-04

Pricing

Claude 3 Opus is roughly 5.0x more expensive compared to Claude 3 Sonnet for input and output tokens.

	Claude 3 Opus	Claude 3 Sonnet
Input Cost of input data provided to the model.	$15.00 per million tokens	$3.00 per million tokens
Output Cost of output tokens generated by the model.	$75.00 per million tokens	$15.00 per million tokens

Benchmarks

Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3 Sonnet.

	Claude 3 Opus	Claude 3 Sonnet
MMLU Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.	88.2 (5-shot CoT) Source	81.5 (5-shot CoT) Source
MMMU A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark.	59.4 Source	53.1 Source
HellaSwag A challenging sentence completion benchmark.	95.4 (10-shot) Source	89.0 (10-shot) Source

Claude 3 Opus, developed by Anthropic, features a context window of 200,000 tokens. The model costs 1.5 cents per thousand tokens for input and 7.5 cents per thousand tokens for output. It was released on March 4, 2024, and has achieved impressive scores in benchmarks like HellaSwag with a score of 95.4 in a 10-shot scenario, MMLU with a score of 88.2 in a 5-shot CoT scenario, and MMMU with a score of 59.4.

Claude 3 Sonnet, developed by Anthropic, features a context window of 200,000 tokens. The model costs 0.3 cents per thousand tokens for input and 1.5 cents per thousand tokens for output. It was released on March 4, 2024, and has achieved benchmark scores of 53.1 in MMMU, 89.0 in HellaSwag (10-shot), and 81.5 in MMLU (5-shot CoT).

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