IBL News | New York
Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its most advanced AI model, this week.
According to the company:
• “Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the first hybrid reasoning model on the market, can produce near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking that is made visible to the user.”
• “API users also have fine-grained control over how long the model can think for.”
• “Claude 3.7 Sonnet shows particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development.”
Reasoning models like o3-mini, R1, Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, and xAI’s Grok 3 (Think) use more time and computing power before answering questions.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available on all Claude plans—including Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise—and the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Extended thinking mode is available on all surfaces except the free Claude tier.
Its price is the same as its predecessors (the company skipped a number): $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, which include thinking tokens.
That makes it more expensive than OpenAI’s o3-mini ($1.10 per 1 million input tokens/$4.40 per 1 million output tokens), and DeepSeek’s R1 (55 cents per 1 million input tokens/$2.19 per 1 million output tokens), but o3-mini and R1 are strictly reasoning models — not hybrids like Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
In addition, Anthropic introduced, as a preview, Claude Code, a command line tool for agentic coding.
The company said:
“Early testing demonstrated Claude’s leadership in coding capabilities across the board: Cursor noted Claude is once again best-in-class for real-world coding tasks, with significant improvements in areas ranging from handling complex codebases to advanced tool use. Cognition found it far better than any other model at planning code changes and handling full-stack updates. Vercel highlighted Claude’s exceptional precision for complex agent workflows, while Replit has successfully deployed Claude to build sophisticated web apps and dashboards from scratch, where other models stall. In Canva’s evaluations, Claude consistently produced production-ready code with superior design taste and drastically reduced errors.”
