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Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 vs Claude Instant

This page is context-first: how much text each model can take in one request. Full specs adds capabilities and limits; the pricing matrix below is only about $/million tokens from hosts that list both models.

Anthropic

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Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229

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Context window

200K

200,000 tokens · ~150K words

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Anthropic

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Claude Instant

Context window

100K

100,000 tokens · ~75K words

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Bar length is relative to the larger of the two windows (100% = max of this pair). This is not pricing.

Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229200K
Claude Instant100K

Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 has about 2× the context window of the other in this pair.

Token calculator →Memory savings →

Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 has 100% more context capacity (200K vs 100K tokens). Claude Instant is 73% cheaper on input.

Quick verdicts

Short takeaways — validate with your own workloads.

  • Long document processing

    Use Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229. Its 200K context fits entire documents without chunking (vs 100K).

  • RAG / high-volume retrieval

    Use Claude Instant. Input tokens are 73% cheaper — critical when sending large retrieved contexts.

  • Long output (reports, code files)

    Use Claude Instant. Its 8K max output lets you generate complete artifacts in one request.

Full specs

Context, output, capabilities, and dates. Green highlights the favorable value where we compute a winner.

SpecApac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229Claude Instant
Context window200,000 tokens (200K)100,000 tokens (100K)
Max output tokens4,096 tokens (4K)8,191 tokens (8K)
Speed tierBalancedBalanced
VisionYesNo
Function callingYesNo
Extended thinkingNoNo
Prompt cachingYesNo
Batch APIYesYes
Release dateN/AN/A

Pricing matrix

Dollar rates only: hosts that list both models, per 1M tokens. For how much text fits, use the context section above — not this table.

ProviderApac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 inApac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 outClaude Instant inClaude Instant out
Aws Bedrock$3.00/M$15.00/M$0.800/M$2.40/M

Frequently asked questions

Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 has a larger context window: 200K tokens vs 100K. For long documents, large codebases, or extended agent sessions, the larger context window reduces the need to chunk inputs or summarize history.

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