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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Model family: claude-sonnet-4
Claude Sonnet 4.5 — the prior recommended default with strong coding/agents, superseded by 4.6.
Identity
- Creator
- Anthropic
- Model family
- claude-sonnet-4
- Release date
- 2025-09-28
Technical specs
- Parameter count
- The prior Sonnet default ($3/$15), known for strong coding and agent capabilities. 200K context (1M long-context billed separately). Superseded by 4.6.
- Context window
- 200K tokens
- Modalities
- Image Input
- Text
- Primary capabilities
- Chat
- Coding
- Instruction Following
- Long Context
- Reasoning
- Tool Use
- Vision
License
- License
- Anthropic Commercial Terms of Service
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Terms
- Modification ✗
- Redistribution ✗
- Attribution ✗
Access
- Openness
- Closed Api
- Access methods
- Api First Party
- Api Third Party
- Hosted Chat Ui
- Cost tier
- Paid Api
Sources
- llm
- closed-api
- multimodal
- coding
- us-based
- proprietary