Claude 3.7 Sonnet, released by Anthropic in February 2025, is the company’s first hybrid reasoning model, combining fast response generation with an optional “extended thinking mode” that reveals longer, step-by-step reasoning. Like its predecessors, it is multimodal, handling both text and images, but expands its usability with up to 200,000 input tokens and up to 128,000 output tokens (64K generally available, 128K in beta). This makes it well-suited for analyzing large documents, codebases, or multi-turn conversations.
Typical applications include software development, research workflows, extended reasoning tasks, and enterprise-scale knowledge work where a trade-off between speed and visible reasoning is valuable.