Understand and compare
Claude 3 Sonnet
vs.
Claude 2.1
Overview
Claude 3 Sonnet was released
3 months after
Claude 2.1.
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Provider
The entity that provides this model.
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Input Context Window
The number of tokens supported by the input context window.
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200K
tokens
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200K
tokens
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Maximum Output Tokens
The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request.
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4,096
tokens
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Not specified.
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Release Date
When the model was first released.
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2024-03-04
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2023-11-23
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Pricing
Claude 3 Sonnet is
roughly 2.7x cheaper compared
to Claude 2.1 for input tokens and
roughly 37.5% cheaper
for output tokens.
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Input
Cost of input data provided to the model.
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$3.00
per million tokens
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$8.00
per million tokens
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Output
Cost of output tokens generated by the model.
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$15.00
per million tokens
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$24.00
per million tokens
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Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 3 Sonnet
and Claude 2.1.
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MMLU
Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.
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81.5
(5-shot CoT)
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Benchmark not available.
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MMMU
A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark.
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53.1
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Benchmark not available.
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HellaSwag
A challenging sentence completion benchmark.
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89.0
(10-shot)
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Benchmark not available.
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Claude 2.1, developed by Anthropic, features a large context window of 200,000 tokens. The model costs 0.08 cents per thousand tokens for input and 0.24 cents per thousand tokens for output. It was released on November 23, 2023.
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