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Claude 3 Sonnet

claude-3-sonnet-20240229

2024-03-042025-07-21 · lived 1 year, 4 months

The middle Claude 3, and the one that was free on claude.ai — so through 2024, to everyone who had never held an API key, Claude meant this. Its model ID ends in 20240229, a leap day it shares with Opus and that neither of them was released on.

Provider
Anthropic
Cause of death
Superseded
Notice given
2025-01-21
Context
200,000 tokens
Cost per Mtok
$3.00 in · $15.00 out
Succeeded by
Claude 3.5 Sonnet

“Succeeded by” is this site’s reading of model lineage, not the provider’s official migration guidance.

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