Claude Instant
Claude Instant was Anthropic’s original lighter, faster, and less expensive Claude tier, released alongside Claude. It supported conversational and text-processing work through the API and partner chat interfaces. The family progressed through 1.0, 1.1, and the significant 1.2 update, which improved coding, mathematics, reasoning, extraction, and multilingual answers. The final model supported a 100K context. All Instant API identities were retired in November 2024.
2023-03-14
Unreleased
Undisclosed proprietary architecture
Proprietary
Specifications
- Parameters
- Unreleased
- Architecture
- Undisclosed proprietary architecture
- License
- Proprietary
- Context Window
- 100,000 tokens
- Type
- text
- Modalities
- text
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- Claude
- API Access
- Not Available
- Chat Interface
- Not Available
- Multilingual Support
- Yes
- Variants
- claude-instant-1.0claude-instant-1.1claude-instant-1.2 (August 9, 2023)
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- conversationsummarizationtext extractioncodemultilingual answers
- Known Limitations
- All Instant API identities retired November 6, 2024.Lower reasoning capability than the contemporary full Claude tier.
- Notable Use Cases
- low-latency assistantsdocument processinghigh-volume text work