Overview
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic’s latest mid-tier model, positioned between the more powerful Opus and the previous 3.0 versions. It offers a strong balance of performance and cost-effectiveness.
Key Specifications
- Context Window: 200,000 tokens
- Output Limit: 8,192 tokens
- Training Cutoff: April 2024
- Pricing:
- Input: $3.00 per million tokens
- Output: $15.00 per million tokens
Performance Highlights
- Legal Domain: Particularly strong in criminal law tasks, outperforming GPT-4 in several legal reasoning benchmarks
- Cost-Efficiency: Better performance/cost ratio compared to Claude 3 Opus
- Consistency: Shows more stable performance across different task types compared to previous versions
Benchmark Results
The model shows strong performance across our benchmarks. It is the state-of-the-art for on our Corporate Finance benchmark. It is comparatively lacking on the Contract Law benchmark.
Consistently high performing across benchmarks:
- CaseLaw: One of the top three models for these tasks.
- TaxEval: Comparatively strong performance with significant room for improvement.
- CorpFin: Strong question-answering ability over credit agreements.
- ContractLaw: The worst performing domain for this model.
Use Case Recommendations
Best suited for:
- Legal document analysis
- Complex reasoning tasks
- Long-form content generation
- Tasks requiring high accuracy with cost constraints
Limitations
- Occasionally produces verbose outputs
Comparison with Other Models
Major improvements over Claude 3.0 Sonnet:
- Improved accuracy in legal reasoning
- Better handling of nuanced instructions
- More consistent performance across tasks