Provider: Anthropic
License: Anthropic Terms of Use (API access only)
Access: API via Claude.ai, AWS Bedrock, and partners
Modalities: Text + Image (multimodal)
Release: Claude 3 Sonnet (March 2024)
🔍 Overview
Claude 3 Sonnet is the middle-tier model in Anthropic’s Claude 3 series, offering a robust balance of reasoning ability, response speed, and multimodal capability. Designed for high-demand enterprise tasks, Sonnet bridges the gap between Claude 3 Haiku (lightweight) and Claude 3 Opus (flagship).
Key features:
- 🧠 Strong Reasoning: High performance in coding, math, and logic tasks
- 👁️ Multimodal Support: Processes and reasons over images, charts, and visual documents
- ⚡ Fast & Scalable: Tuned for lower latency than Claude 3 Opus, ideal for production use
⚙️ Technical Profile
- Architecture: Proprietary transformer model (specs not fully disclosed)
- Modalities: Text + Vision (image inputs)
- Context Length: Up to 200K tokens
- Benchmarking: Near GPT-4-level in MMLU, GSM8K, and vision reasoning benchmarks
- Training Methods: Constitutional AI + Reinforcement Learning + Synthetic data scaling
🚀 Deployment
- API Platforms: Claude.ai, AWS Bedrock, and Anthropic partner integrations
- Latency: Faster than Opus, scalable for real-time interactions
- Use Cases: Customer support, document analysis, data-rich QA, multimodal agents