Artificial Intelligence
Claude 3 Family: Haiku, Sonnet and Opus Compared
Anthropic launched the Claude 3 family on March 4, 2024 with three models: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, all with 200k-token context. Haiku costs $0.25 per million tokens; Opus matches GPT-4 Turbo on benchmarks. This comparison explains when to choose each tier and how to combine them in production to cut costs without sacrificing quality where it matters.