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Claude Sonnet 3.6

Model facts

Provider: Anthropic
Released: 2024-10-22
Retirement: 2025-10-28

Technical details

Model ID: claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022
Status: Retired
Context window: 200,000 tokens
Max output: 8,192 tokens
Knowledge cutoff: 2024-04-30
Input modalities: Text, Image, PDF
Output modalities: Text
Pricing (per 1M tokens): $3 in / $15 out
Tool use: Yes

Links

models.dev entry

Claude Sonnet chronology

Preceded by

Claude Sonnet 3.5

Succeeded by

Claude Sonnet 3.7

Claude chronology

Preceded by

Claude Sonnet 3.5

Succeeded by

Claude Sonnet 3.7

Claude Sonnet 3.6 (officially Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new)) is an LLM by Anthropic, released October 22, 2024. Anthropic shipped it as the successor to the Jun 2024 model.

The model was deprecated on 2025-08-13 and retired on 2025-10-28; requests to it via the API now fail.