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Anthropic
anthropic.com › news › claude-4
Introducing Claude 4
Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 are hybrid models offering two modes: near-instant responses and extended thinking for deeper reasoning. The Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise Claude plans include both models and extended thinking, with Sonnet 4 also available to free users.
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Anthropic
anthropic.com › claude › sonnet
Claude Sonnet 4.5
For complex financial analysis—risk, structured products, portfolio screening—Claude Sonnet 4.5 with thinking delivers investment-grade insights that require less human review.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/claudeai › why i think claude sonnet 4 thinking is the best
r/ClaudeAI on Reddit: Why I think Claude Sonnet 4 Thinking is the best
June 20, 2025 -

After trying several Free version of several assistants (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.), Claude Sonnet 4 Thinking 🙌 stands out for me as the best coding assistant so far. A few things that sold me:

Reasoning-first answers — it walks through why an approach works (or doesn’t), not just pastes code.

Multi-file context — it keeps track of project structure and gives consistent suggestions across files.

Refactor & tests — it suggests concise refactors and generates unit tests that actually catch edge-cases.

Debugging help — when I paste stack traces or failing tests it narrows the root cause quickly and suggests minimal fixes.

Readable style — produced code is readable and easy to adopt; less hand-holding required.

Not perfect — token limits and cost can be a factor for very large projects, and sometimes you still need to vet outputs. But for me the time saved + improved code quality outweighs those. Curious what others use for deep debugging or multi-file refactors.

Anyone else prefer Claude for coding? Why/why not?

Do you like this personally?

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Anthropic
anthropic.com › news › claude-sonnet-4-5
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
For complex financial analysis—risk, structured products, portfolio screening—Claude Sonnet 4.5 with thinking delivers investment-grade insights that require less human review.
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Artificial Analysis
artificialanalysis.ai › models › claude-4-sonnet-thinking
Claude 4 Sonnet - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysis
Analysis of Anthropic's Claude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
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Claude
docs.claude.com › en › docs › about-claude › models › whats-new-sonnet-4-5
What's new in Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Docs
Extended thinking for optimal performance: Claude Sonnet 4.5 performs significantly better on coding tasks when extended thinking is enabled. Extended thinking is disabled by default, but we recommend enabling it for complex coding work.
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AI SDK
ai-sdk.dev › cookbook › guides › claude-4
Guides: Get started with Claude 4
The code snippet below is all you ... capabilities first introduced in Claude 3.7 Sonnet—the ability to solve complex problems with careful, step-by-step reasoning....
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The Neuron
theneuron.ai › explainer-articles › everything-to-know-about-claude-4-sonnet-4-opus-4-from-the-good-to-the-bad-and-the-mid
Everything to know about Claude 4 (Sonnet 4, Opus 4), from the Good, to the Bad, and the REAL weird... | The Neuron
Both Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 are "hybrid reasoning models" with two modes. Claude 4 has two modes, depending on what you need: near-instant responses and an "extended thinking" mode for deeper, multi-step reasoning.
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Claude Docs
platform.claude.com › docs › en › about-claude › models › whats-new-claude-4-5
What's new in Claude 4.5 - Claude Docs
Claude Opus 4.5 automatically preserves all previous thinking blocks throughout conversations, maintaining reasoning continuity across extended multi-turn interactions and tool use sessions.
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Poe
poe.com › Claude-Sonnet-4.5
Claude-Sonnet-4.5 - Poe
Claude Sonnet 4.5 represents a major leap forward in AI capability and alignment. It is the most advanced model released by Anthropic to date, distinguished by dramatic improvements in reasoning, mathematics, and real-world coding. Supports 1m tokens of context.
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The Verge
theverge.com › news › ai › tech
Anthropic’s Claude 4 AI models are better at coding and reasoning | The Verge
May 22, 2025 - Image: Anthropic · A new feature introduced for both Claude 4 models is “thinking summaries,” which condenses the chatbots’ reasoning process into easily understandable insights.
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Google Cloud
cloud.google.com › blog › products › ai-machine-learning › anthropics-claude-opus-4-and-claude-sonnet-4-on-vertex-ai
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI | Google Cloud Blog
May 23, 2025 - Today, we're expanding the choice ... Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 are hybrid reasoning models, meaning they offer modes for near-instant responses and extended thinking for deeper reasoning....
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DataCamp
datacamp.com › blog › claude-4
Claude 4: Tests, Features, Access, Benchmarks & More | DataCamp
May 23, 2025 - For comparison, Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google’s flagship model) has a context window of 1M tokens. It’s also capable of running in “extended thinking” mode, where it switches from fast responses to slower, more deliberate reasoning.
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Poe
poe.com › Claude-Sonnet-4
Claude-Sonnet-4 - Poe
Claude Sonnet 4 from Anthropic, supports customizable thinking budget (up to 30k tokens) and 1m context window. To instruct the bot to use more thinking effort, add --thinking_budget and a number ranging from 0 to 30,768 to the end of your message.
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Medium
medium.com › @leucopsis › claude-sonnet-4-and-opus-4-a-review-db68b004db90
Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4, a Review | by Barnacle Goose | Medium
May 29, 2025 - It offers “superior coding and reasoning while responding more precisely to your instructions”, at a lower cost and faster speed than Opus 4. Both models introduce “hybrid reasoning” abilities — they can produce near-instant answers or engage an extended thinking mode for step-by-step reasoning on harder problems...
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Cursor
forum.cursor.com › bug reports
Claude 4.5 Sonnet no longer thinking? - Bug Reports - Cursor - Community Forum
October 21, 2025 - Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug About…maybe, 40 minutes ago now, it appears that Claude 4.5 Sonnet Thinking, simply stopped thinking. I am still on the thinking version of the mo…
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Medium
medium.com › @cognidownunder › claude-sonnet-4-5-4ddf33d53cd4
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Extended Thinking Explained: Can Code for 30 Hours Straight, But That’s Not the Scary Part | by Cogni Down Under | Medium
September 30, 2025 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 runs two distinct modes that fundamentally alter how we interact with code generation. Standard mode gives you near-instant responses like every other model you’ve used. Extended thinking mode opens a window into the machine’s mind.
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n8n
n8n.io › workflows › 4399-anthropic-ai-agent-claude-sonnet-4-and-opus-4-with-think-and-web-search-tool
Anthropic AI Agent: Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 with Think and Web Search tool | n8n workflow template
Claude Sonnet 4: Best for standard tasks like real-time workflow routing, data validation, and routine business logic. Claude Opus 4: Reserved for complex scenarios requiring deep reasoning, advanced analysis, or high-impact decisions.
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AWS
docs.aws.amazon.com › amazon bedrock › user guide › amazon bedrock foundation model information › inference request parameters and response fields for foundation models › anthropic claude models › anthropic claude messages api › extended thinking
Extended thinking - Amazon Bedrock
This behavior is consistent whether using regular thinking or interleaved thinking. In older Claude models (prior to Claude 3.7 Sonnet), if the sum of prompt tokens and max_tokens exceeded the model’s context window, the system would automatically adjust max_tokens to fit within the context limit. This meant you could set a large max_tokens value and the system would silently reduce it as needed. With Claude 3.7 and 4 models, max_tokens (which includes your thinking budget when thinking is enabled) is enforced as a strict limit.