Claude Sonnet 4
No estimate
No hardware requirements for this model
The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.
On record
Full specification
Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.
Origin
Who built this model, where, and when it was published.
- Organisation
- Anthropic
- Organisation type
- Industry
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 22 May 2025
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Language, Multimodal, Vision
- Task
- Code generation, Language modeling/generation, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Instruction interpretation, Mathematical reasoning, Visual puzzles, Code autocompletion, Chat, Character recognition (OCR), Language modeling, Language generation, Text autocompletion, Retrieval-augmented generation, System control
Size
How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.
- Training data
- tokens
Availability
Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.
- Weights
- Closed — provider access only
- Model access
- API access
- Training code
- Unreleased
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Likely above 10²³ FLOP
- Yes
- Why it is tracked
- Training cost
- Record confidence
- Unknown
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Hybrid reasoning model with superior intelligence for high-volume use cases, and 200K context window
- Last updated
- 24 April 2026
What the numbers mean
Background
Claude Sonnet 4 was published by Anthropic, in United States of America, in May 2025. It comes out of industry.
It works in Language, Multimodal, Vision, and is recorded as doing code generation, Language modeling/generation, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Instruction interpretation, Mathematical reasoning, Visual puzzles, Code autocompletion, Chat, Character recognition (OCR), Language modeling, Language generation, Text autocompletion, Retrieval-augmented generation, System control.
This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.
What went into building it
Its inclusion criterion is training cost.
Answers
Claude Sonnet 4 — common questions
Who created Claude Sonnet 4?
Claude Sonnet 4 was published by Anthropic, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.
When was Claude Sonnet 4 released?
Claude Sonnet 4 was published in May 2025.
What is Claude Sonnet 4 used for?
Claude Sonnet 4 works in Language, Multimodal, Vision, and is recorded as handling code generation, Language modeling/generation, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Instruction interpretation, Mathematical reasoning, Visual puzzles, Code autocompletion, Chat, Character recognition (OCR), Language modeling, Language generation, Text autocompletion, Retrieval-augmented generation, System control. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.
What GPU do I need to run Claude Sonnet 4?
None. Claude Sonnet 4 is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.
Is Claude Sonnet 4 open source?
No. Claude Sonnet 4 has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.
How many parameters does Claude Sonnet 4 have?
No parameter count has been published for Claude Sonnet 4, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.
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