Claude 3 Sonnet: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window
Claude 3 Sonnet is a language model from Anthropic, released in February 2024, with multimodal input.
Claude 3 Sonnet strikes the ideal balance between intelligence and speed—particularly for enterprise workloads. It delivers strong performance at a lower cost compared to its peers, and is engineered for high endurance in large-scale AI
Claude 3 Sonnet benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
High-confidence performance for Claude 3 Sonnet across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.
Performance by conversation depth
How Claude 3 Sonnet holds up as conversations get longer.
Quality Tracker
Claude 3 Sonnet Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Thu Oct 08 2026Claude 3 Sonnet pricing
Providers
Claude 3 Sonnet starts at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic. See all 3 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Anthropic | $3.00 | — | $15.00 | 200.0K/200.0K | 0.50 | — | / |
 Bedrock | $3.00 | — | $15.00 | 200.0K/200.0K | 0.50 | — | / |
 Google | $3.00 | — | $15.00 | 200.0K/200.0K | 0.40 | — | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
Claude 3 Sonnet context window
Input and output token limits for Claude 3 Sonnet, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
Try now
huggleMake it with
Claude 3 Sonnet.
Claude 3 Sonnet latency
Claude 3 Sonnet time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.
Claude 3 Sonnet examples
Recent arena outputs from Claude 3 Sonnet, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Claude 3 Sonnet license
Claude 3 Sonnet is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Claude 3 Sonnet resources
Official sources for Claude 3 Sonnet: provider documentation, official playground, paper or system card, official launch post.
Claude 3 Sonnet vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to Claude 3 Sonnet are Ministral 3 (14B Base 2512), Gemini 1.5 Flash, Gemma 2 27B. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like Claude 3 Sonnet
Models ranked just above and below Claude 3 Sonnet by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Claude 3 Sonnet.