claude-2.1 — Retired — shutdown July 21, 2025
For claude-2.1, provider is Anthropic; lifecycle status is Retired; deprecation announced is January 21, 2025; shutdown / retirement date is July 21, 2025; recommended replacement is claude-opus-4-8; platform / deployment scope is Anthropic API / Claude Platform on AWS / Microsoft Foundry, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28.
- Provider
- Anthropic our reading
- Model ID / API name
- claude-2.1 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Retired
- Deprecation announced
- January 21, 2025
- Shutdown / retirement date
- July 21, 2025 verified
- Recommended replacement
- claude-opus-4-8 verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- Anthropic API / Claude Platform on AWS / Microsoft Foundry our reading
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What the source says
| July 21, 2025 | `claude-2.1` | `claude-opus-4-8` |
— docs.anthropic.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Sources
- docs.anthropic.comhttps://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations.md
- docs.anthropic.comhttps://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations
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