Anthropic · General LLM
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant built with Constitutional AI principles, emphasizing safety, helpfulness, and nuanced long-context understanding.
Overview
Claude is Anthropic's flagship AI assistant, designed with a focus on being helpful, harmless, and honest through Constitutional AI training. Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus offer industry-leading performance on analysis, coding, and creative tasks, with a 200K-token context window enabling processing of entire codebases or lengthy documents. Claude is particularly recognized for its careful, nuanced responses and strong performance on complex reasoning tasks.
Models
Opus, Sonnet, Haiku (3.5 / 3 family)
Context Window
200K tokens
Modality
Text + image input, text output
Safety
Constitutional AI (CAI)
API Availability
Anthropic API, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud
Capabilities
Long-context document analysis up to 200K tokens
Advanced coding and software engineering tasks
Nuanced reasoning with reduced hallucination rates
Multilingual understanding and generation
Vision capabilities for image analysis
Constitutional AI safety alignment
Use Cases
Analyzing lengthy legal documents, contracts, and research papers
Building enterprise AI assistants with strong safety requirements
Code generation and codebase-level analysis and refactoring
Complex research synthesis across multiple long documents
Pros
- +Industry-leading 200K context window for document analysis
- +Strong safety alignment reduces harmful output risks
- +Excellent at following complex, nuanced instructions
- +Competitive coding and reasoning performance
Cons
- -Closed-source with no self-hosting option
- -Opus pricing is premium compared to competitors
- -More conservative responses can sometimes over-refuse requests
- -Smaller third-party ecosystem compared to OpenAI
Pricing
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: $3/1M input, $15/1M output. Claude 3 Opus: $15/1M input, $75/1M output. Claude 3 Haiku: $0.25/1M input, $1.25/1M output.