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Overview

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

	Claude 3 Sonnet	Claude 3 Opus
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 10 months ago 2024-03-04	March 4th, 2024 10 months ago 2024-03-04
Knowledge Cutoff Limit on the knowledge base used by the model.	August 2023 August 2023	August 2023 August 2023
Open Source	No	No
API Providers The providers that offer this model. (This is not an exhaustive list.)	Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI Model Garden	Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI Model Garden

Pricing

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

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

Benchmarks

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

	Claude 3 Sonnet	Claude 3 Opus
MMLU Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.	81.5 (5-shot CoT) Source	88.2 (5-shot CoT) Source
MMMU A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark.	53.1 Source	59.4 Source
HellaSwag A challenging sentence completion benchmark.	89.0 (10-shot) Source	95.4 (10-shot) Source
GSM8K Grade-school math problems benchmark.	Benchmark not available.	Benchmark not available.
HumanEval A benchmark to measure functional correctness for synthesizing programs from docstrings.	Benchmark not available.	Benchmark not available.
MATH Benchmark performance on Math problems ranging across 5 levels of difficulty and 7 sub-disciplines.	Benchmark not available.	Benchmark not available.

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).

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.

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