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Anthropic

Anthropic

Pioneer in constitutional AI focused on safety, known for their Claude model family that excels at reasoning and conversation.

Total Models

16

Text Models

16

Active Period

Jun 2023 – Feb 2026

Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers concerned about safety.

Operates as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) prioritizing societal benefit.

Developed 'Constitutional AI' training methodology for safer model alignment.

Known for the Claude family of LLMs (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus).

Conducts significant research into AI interpretability.

Received substantial investments from Amazon ($8B+) and Google ($2B+).

Compare Anthropic Models

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Feb 2026

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with memory, polished document creation, and confident computer use for web QA and workflow automation.

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Claude Opus 4.6

Feb 2026

Anthropic's strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks. Built for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts, excelling at large codebases, complex refactors, and multi-step debugging. Shows deeper contextual understanding, stronger problem decomposition, and greater reliability on hard engineering tasks. Also excels at sustained knowledge work, producing near-production-ready documents, plans, and analyses in a single pass.

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Claude Opus 4.5

Nov 2025

Claude Opus 4.5 model integrated via automation on 2025-11-24

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Claude Haiku 4.5

Oct 2025

Claude Haiku 4.5 matches Claude Sonnet 4's reasoning and coding strength while staying ultra-responsive for real-time and high-volume workloads. Extended thinking, controllable reasoning depth, and full tool-use support keep sub-agents fast without sacrificing quality.

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Claude Sonnet 4.5

Sep 2025

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic's most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. Stronger agentic capabilities, speculative parallel execution, efficient memory and tool orchestration.

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Claude Opus 4.1

Aug 2025

Claude Opus 4.1 is an updated version of Anthropic's flagship model, offering improved performance in coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks. It achieves 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified and shows notable gains in multi-file code refactoring, debugging precision, and detail-oriented reasoning. The model supports extended thinking up to 64K tokens and is optimized for tasks involving research, data analysis, and tool-assisted reasoning.

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Claude Opus 4

May 2025

Claude Opus 4 is Anthropic's most powerful model, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents. It excels at long-running tasks and complex problem-solving, with capabilities like extended thinking with tool use and improved memory.

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Claude Sonnet 4

May 2025

Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Sonnet 3.7, delivering superior coding and reasoning while responding more precisely to instructions. It balances performance and efficiency for various use cases.

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Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet

Feb 2025

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet exposes the full chain-of-thought process during problem-solving, including error backtracking and alternative solution exploration. Scores 86.1% on GPQA Diamond benchmark for expert-level Q&A.

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Feb 2025

Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers Extended Thinking Scaffolds that boost SWE-bench coding accuracy from 62.3% to 70.3%, with 81.2% accuracy in retail automation tasks, outperforming Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by 13.6%.

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Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)

Jun 2024

Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers a cost-efficient API ($3/million input tokens vs. $5 for GPT-4o) and uses embedded alignment techniques that reduce harmful outputs by 34% compared to Claude 2.1.

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Golden Gate Claude

May 2024

A temporary research demo version of Claude 3 Sonnet (active for 24 hours on May 23, 2024) specifically engineered by Anthropic to demonstrate feature steering. The model was manipulated to obsessively focus on the Golden Gate Bridge in its responses, showcasing research into model interpretability and safety.

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Claude 3 Sonnet

Mar 2024

Claude 3 Sonnet is an ideal balance of intelligence and speed for enterprise workloads. Maximum utility at a lower price, dependable, balanced for scaled deployments. Features a 200,000 token context window and excels at conversation, reasoning, code generation, and analysis tasks.

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Claude 3 Haiku

Mar 2024

Claude 3 Haiku is Anthropic's fastest and most compact model, designed for near-instant responses in real-time applications with strong multilingual support.

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Claude 3 Opus

Mar 2024

Claude 3 Opus is Anthropic's most powerful model with versatile capabilities ranging from complex reasoning to advanced problem-solving.

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Claude 2

Jun 2023

Anthropic's Claude 2 model, featuring a large 100K token context window and strong performance on various benchmarks. Known for helpful, honest, and harmless AI conversations.

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