Claude Sonnet 4
ClaudeBalanced
Performance Tier
Balanced
Claude Sonnet 4 is a balanced model from Claude : strong performance at a reasonable price.
Strong cost-performance ratio. Reliable for most professional use cases without premium pricing.
Capabilities
Context Length—
Max Output Tokens—
Benchmarks
General Intelligence
MMLU
86.8%
GPQA Diamond
65.2%
Mathematics
MATH-500
78.2%
AIME 2025
70.5%
Programming
HumanEval
92%
SWE-bench Verified
53.8%
Where does Claude Sonnet 4 stand?
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Recommended Use Cases
CodingGeneral ChatCreative WritingAnalysis
Strengths
- Excellent speed-to-quality ratio for everyday tasks
- Strong code generation capabilities (HumanEval 92%)
- Reliable instruction following at a lower price point
- Good multi-turn conversation abilities
Limitations
- Superseded by Sonnet 4.5 for complex reasoning
- Smaller context window than Opus models
Frequently asked questions
Resources
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