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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
anthropic·anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet·Deprecated·Closed·claude-sonnet series
Balanced Claude model for coding, analysis, agent workflows, and cost control
At a glance
Reference price$3.00 / $15.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.30 · DigitalOcean
Lowest paid$3.00 / $15.00
DigitalOcean Cloud
Context200,000
Output limit8,192
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2024-04
Released / updated2025-09-09 / 2025-09-09
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence9.8
Value2
Coding30.2
Agentic—
Output speed—
TTFT—
Value formulaIQ 9.8 ÷ min blended $6.000 = 2
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
defaultIQ 8.1
defaultIQ 9.8
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 2 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean anthropic-claude-3.5-sonnet | Cloud | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200,000 | 8,192 | deprecated |
| Qiniu | Gateway | — | — | — | — | 200,000 | 8,200 | hostTable.undisclosed |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1DigitalOcean$1,026.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
Upstream provides no control info
1 / 2 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $3.00Output list $15.00Min blended $6.00
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-13). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.