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Claude Instant

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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

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