Claude 3 Opus

retired Retired

Claude 3 Opus is a retired Anthropic LLM API model. and shut down on Jan 5, 2026. Migrate any code that still calls claude-3-opus-20240229 to anthropic/claude-opus-4-7.

Recommended action: migrate to anthropic/claude-opus-4-7.

Lifecycle & specs

Provider
Anthropic
API model ID
claude-3-opus-20240229
Status
retired
Released
Feb 29, 2024
Deprecated
Jun 30, 2025
Retirement date
Jan 5, 2026
Replacement
anthropic/claude-opus-4-7
Context window
200,000 tokens

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