claude-sonnet-4-20250514 — Retired — shutdown June 15, 2026
For claude-sonnet-4-20250514, provider is Anthropic; lifecycle status is Retired; deprecation announced is April 14, 2026; shutdown / retirement date is June 15, 2026; recommended replacement is claude-sonnet-4-6; 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-sonnet-4-20250514 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Retired verified
- Deprecation announced
- April 14, 2026 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- June 15, 2026 verified
- Recommended replacement
- claude-sonnet-4-6 verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- Anthropic API / Claude Platform on AWS / Microsoft Foundry our reading
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What the source says
2026-04-14: Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4 models These models were retired June 15, 2026. On April 14, 2026, Anthropic notified developers using Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4 models of their upcoming retirement on the Claude API. Retirement date | Deprecated model | Recommended replacement | June 15, 2026 | claude-sonnet-4-20250514 | claude-sonnet-4-6 |
— docs.anthropic.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Source
- docs.anthropic.comhttps://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations
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