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It was the first release from Claude 3.5 model family. Claude 3.5 Sonnet raises the industry bar for intelligence, outperforming competitor models and Claude 3 Opus on a wide range of evaluations, with the speed and cost of Anthropic's mid-tier models.
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Claude Instant is Anthropic's faster, lower-priced yet still very capable model, which can handle a range of tasks including casual dialogue, text analysis, summarization, and document comprehension. It was released on August 9th, 2023 with API access as well.
Overview
Overview of the AI models
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Claude Instant 1.2
Input Context Window
The quantity of tokens that the input context window can accommodate.
200K
tokens
100k
tokens
Release Date
When the model was released.
June 21st, 2024
August 9th, 2023
License
Terms and conditions under which an AI model can be used.
Proprietary
Proprietary
Benchmark
Compare important benchmarks among the AI models
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Claude Instant 1.2
MMLU
Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) is a benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of language models.
89
73
Throughput
Output tokens per second.
80
tokens/s
86
tokens/s
Latency
Seconds taken to receive the first tokens, measured on an input size of 1000 tokens.
0.8
seconds
0.6
seconds