Anthropic (Claude)
Claude models with 200K token context windows, strong instruction following, and nuanced writing quality. Excels at long-document analysis and content generation.
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Haiku $0.25/1M in, Sonnet $3/1M in, Opus $15/1M in
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Long-context tasks, content generation, and nuanced conversations
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