# Anthropic introduces the Claude 3 model family

> Anthropic announced Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, positioning the three models at different capability, speed, and cost points. The release described benchmark results, vision capabilities, and API availability, while model selection and production behavior remain workload-specific under explicitly stated provider terms and rate limits.

Canonical: https://hypler.com/ai-news/anthropic-claude-3-family-2024
Hypler publication: 2026-10-06
Original source date: 2024-03-04
Publisher: Anthropic
Article kind: source-briefing
Category: Models
Tags: Anthropic, model-selection, multimodal

## Engineering relevance

Model-family choices should follow a measured task and cost profile. Hypler can keep provider-neutral test fixtures and compare quality, latency, and failure modes before binding a workflow to a variant.

## Original source

- [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family)

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