Balanced Claude model for coding, analysis, agent workflows, and cost control
Specification
most-agreed values
Context
200K
Max output
8K
Released
2024-10-22
Knowledge cutoff
2024-04-30
Retires
2026-02-19
Open weights
no
Input
text, image
Output
text
Price
US dollars per million tokens · most-agreed
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Cache read
$0.30
Cache write
$3.75
Quality
2 benchmarks · 2 sources
Composite
55th
percentile of 344 scored models
Rank
156 / 344
±0.09 sd
Evidence
2 × 2
one source, or fewer than 3 benchmarks
Effort range
—
one configuration only
coding41st2/3 bench
Every score
one row per source and configuration — nothing averaged away
| Benchmark | Score | Configuration | Source | Run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 51.6 | default · aider diff | Aider | 2025-01-17 |
| SWE-Bench verified | 50.7 | default · SWE-agent · 13 runs | SWE-bench | — |
The leading figure for a benchmark is the median across its configurations, so one heroic high-effort run cannot set the number.
Available from 9 hosts
| Host | In $/M | Out $/M | Cache rd | Cache wr | Context | Output | Retires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bedrock | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 4K 8K | — |
| bedrock · eu | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 4K 8K | — |
| bedrock · us | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 4K 8K | — |
| snowflake | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | — | 200K | 16K | — |
| vercel_ai_gateway · vercel-ai-gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 8K | — |
| vertex_ai-anthropic_models | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200K | 8K | 2026-02-19 |
| replicate · replicate | $3.75 | $18.75 | — | — | — | — | — |
| heroku · heroku | — | — | — | — | 200K | 8K | — |
| qiniu-ai | — | — | — | — | 200K | 8K | — |
Price history
append-only observations · a listing writes a row only when its price moves
| Date | Host | Field | $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | bedrock | Cache read | $0.30 |
| 2026-09-23 | bedrock | Cache read | $0.30 |
| 2026-09-02 | bedrock | Cache write | $3.75 |
| 2026-09-23 | bedrock | Cache write | $3.75 |
| 2026-09-02 | bedrock | Input | $3.00 |
| 2026-09-23 | bedrock | Input | $3.00 |
| 2026-09-02 | bedrock | Output | $15.00 |
| 2026-09-23 | bedrock | Output | $15.00 |
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