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claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model, used here in extended-thinking mode. It works through demanding coding, mathematical and analytical tasks before producing a text answer, with particular emphasis on practical software development and front-end work.

About the model

This description covers the model’s capabilities. Available in Ailoot inputs, outputs and options are listed for the selected method below.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking describes the extended-thinking mode of Claude 3.7 Sonnet, rather than a separate generation of the base model. Anthropic combines ordinary responses and deeper reasoning in one hybrid model. The Thinking variant is useful when a task contains interacting constraints and the answer benefits from working through them before presenting a conclusion.

Extended reasoning for practical problems

The model spends additional reasoning tokens on the problem before returning its final answer. Anthropic highlights mathematics, physics, complex instruction following and programming, while placing emphasis on real business tasks rather than competition puzzles alone. The manufacturer documents control over reasoning effort through a thinking-token budget; the budget and the final response share the available output allowance. More reasoning takes additional time, so reserve this mode for work where the extra analysis matters.

For an analytical task, provide the evidence, the question to resolve and the criteria for comparing alternatives. Ask for a conclusion followed by its supporting facts, assumptions and unresolved questions. This gives the final answer a usable shape without treating the length of its reasoning as evidence that the conclusion is correct.

Coding and front-end development

Anthropic places particular emphasis on code changes, navigating complex projects and building web interfaces. A useful brief includes the relevant code, expected behaviour, the observed failure and the parts that must remain unchanged. Request a coherent patch and an explanation of how to verify it. For an interface, specify the user actions, loading and error states, responsive behaviour and the output you need, such as a component or a set of page changes.

These examples describe tasks to give the model. Executing commands, reading a repository and editing files require tools supplied by the surrounding application. The model’s coding ability and an application’s permission to run code are separate parts of the workflow.

Text, images and the final artifact

Claude’s visual understanding supports reasoning about material such as screenshots, charts and illustrated documents, alongside written instructions. Supply a legible image and state which detail matters: a labelled axis, a layout problem or a relationship between objects. For exact figures in a chart, include the underlying values where possible. The result is a text explanation, analysis or code, rather than a generated image.

For an Ailoot API project, define the expected final artifact explicitly: an implementation, a reviewed argument, a comparison table or a diagnostic explanation. Provide the relevant material together with that requirement instead of asking the model to guess missing project context.

Knowledge and verification

Anthropic identifies October 2024 as this base model’s reliable knowledge cutoff. Supply current documents when your question depends on later events or changing technical details. Its system card also records a coding failure pattern in which repeated unsuccessful attempts can lead to test-specific shortcuts. Ask for a general solution and inspect changes to tests as carefully as changes to application code. A detailed reasoning trace can help inspect an answer, but Anthropic’s research does not establish it as a complete or infallible account of how a decision was made.

Practical task

Reason through a batching rule

Technical example in English

Reason through a batching rule

A packing line must send 42 jars. Each sealed carton holds 6 jars; opened cartons cannot ship. Each pallet holds at most 4 cartons. Determine the minimum cartons and pallets, then explain a valid loading arrangement. Separate the arithmetic from the assumptions, and state whether any jars remain unpacked.

Expected result

Carton and pallet counts, a loading arrangement, arithmetic and explicit assumptions.

Check the result

Multiply carton capacity back to 42 and verify no pallet exceeds four cartons.
Ailoot Ultra · OpenAI Chat POST /v1/chat/completions claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking

claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking

Anthropic /claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking

Overview

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model, used here in extended-thinking mode. It works through demanding coding, mathematical and analytical tasks before producing a text answer, with particular emphasis on practical software development and front-end work.

Accepted inputs
Text
Results
Text

Available in Ailoot · inputs & methods

Ailoot Ultra · OpenAI Chat POST /v1/chat/completions
Input types
text
Output types
text
Output format
json or SSE
FieldTypeRequirementValues & limitsDefault
FieldmodelTypestringRequirementRequiredValues & limits
claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking
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FieldmessagesTypemessage[]RequirementRequiredValues & limits
Minimum items: 1
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Fieldmessages[].roleTypestringRequirementRequiredValues & limits
Examples: system, user, assistant, tool, function
Conditions: These roles are explicitly represented by Source compatibility types; the exact model role set remains model-specific.
Model-specific
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Fieldmessages[].contentTypestring|content_part[]|nullRequirementOptionalValues & limitsDefault—
Fieldmessages[].tool_callsTypetool_call[]RequirementOptionalValues & limitsDefault—
Fieldmessages[].tool_call_idTypestringRequirementOptionalValues & limits
Applies when: role=tool; use actual returned ID
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Fieldmessages[].nameTypestringRequirementOptionalValues & limitsDefault—
Fieldmessages[].reasoning_contentTypestringRequirementOptionalValues & limits
Applies when: Round-trip actual returned reasoning where this model uses it
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Fieldmessages[].reasoning_detailsTypeobject|arrayRequirementOptionalValues & limits
Model-specific
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Fieldmax_tokensTypeintegerRequirementOptionalValues & limits
Minimum: 1
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Fieldmax_completion_tokensTypeintegerRequirementOptionalValues & limits
Minimum: 1
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FieldstreamTypebooleanRequirementOptionalValues & limitsDefaultfalse
Fieldstream_options.include_usageTypebooleanRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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FieldtemperatureTypenumberRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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Fieldtop_pTypenumberRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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FieldstopTypestring|string[]RequirementOptionalValues & limits
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FieldtoolsTypefunction_tool[]RequirementOptionalValues & limits
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Fieldtools[].typeTypestringRequirementOptionalValues & limits
function
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Fieldtools[].function.nameTypestringRequirementRequiredValues & limits
Applies when: function tool supplied
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Fieldtools[].function.descriptionTypestringRequirementOptionalValues & limitsDefault—
Fieldtools[].function.parametersTypeJSON_schemaRequirementOptionalValues & limitsDefault—
Fieldtool_choiceTypestring|objectRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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Fieldparallel_tool_callsTypebooleanRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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Fieldresponse_formatTypeobjectRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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Fieldreasoning_effortTypestringRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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FieldreasoningTypeobjectRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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Fieldservice_tierTypestringRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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FieldinstructionsTypestringRequirementOptionalValues & limits
Compatibility field
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FieldfunctionsTypefunction[]RequirementOptionalValues & limits
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Fieldfunction_callTypestring|objectRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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Fieldprompt_cache_optionsTypeobjectRequirementOptionalValues & limits
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FieldmodalitiesTypestring[]RequirementOptionalValues & limits
text
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FieldproviderTypeobjectRequirementOptionalValues & limits
Conditions: provider.options is rejected on this Ultra text route
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Fieldcache_control.ttlTypestringRequirementOptionalValues & limits
Conditions: 1h is rejected in actual prompt-cache locations
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Input material combinations

Text · UTF8 text

messages[].content

Method parameters and lifecycle
ParameterContract
Parametercontent_typeContractapplication/json
ParameterrequiredContractmodel, messages
Parametermaterial_typesContracttext
ParametermessagesContractmessage array with role/content shape
Parameterfile_materialContractactual UTF-8 document inserted as literal text; no file ID inferred
Parameteroptional_controlsContractstream, temperature, top_p, stop, max_tokens, max_completion_tokens, reasoning, response_format, tools, tool_choice
Parametercontrol_scopeContractmodel-specific; user function tools differ from hosted tools
Parameteroutput_modalitiesContracttext
Parameterhosted_operationsContractfalse
Parametermultimodal_input_bindingContractnull

Lifecycle: synchronous_or_streamed

Send exact model ID with messages.

Context length is not an output cap.

A text file may supply literal text; image/audio/file-object inputs need exact binding.

Pricing

Tariff references do not add request options. Supported parameters are listed for the selected method.

Fast mode
Not specified When fast mode is selected
Flex mode
Not specified When flex mode is selected
Maximum reasoning effort
Not specified When maximum reasoning effort uses the default adjustment

Ailoot rates

Prices by configuration

ConfigurationRate scheduleCharge
ConfigurationBase token ratesRate scheduleBase rateCharge
Input · Input tokens $0.006 / 1K tokens
Output · Output tokens $0.03 / 1K tokens
Input · Cache read $0.0006 / 1K tokens
Input · Cache write $0.0075 / 1K tokens
Input · Cache write, 1 hour — / 1K tokens

Ailoot reserves an estimated amount before a request. After the result, it settles the final charge from measured usage. Streaming settlement uses the final usage record. How reservation and settlement work →

Example requests

Ailoot Ultra · OpenAI Chat

curlPython SDKPython stream
set -eu
: "${AILOOT_API_KEY:?Set your Ailoot API key}"
python3 - <<'PY_REQUEST'
import json,os
from pathlib import Path
p=json.loads('{"model": "claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain the difference between an observation and a hypothesis in three sentences."}]}')

Path("request.json").write_text(json.dumps(p,ensure_ascii=False))
PY_REQUEST
curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error https://api.ailoot.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AILOOT_API_KEY" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-binary @request.json -D response-headers.txt -o result.json
python3 - <<'PY_RESULT'
import json
from pathlib import Path
r=json.loads(Path("result.json").read_text())
for x in r.get("choices",[]):
    if x.get("message",{}).get("content"): print(x["message"]["content"])
PY_RESULT
from openai import OpenAI
import os

if not os.environ.get("AILOOT_API_KEY", "").strip(): raise SystemExit("Set AILOOT_API_KEY before making a request")
client=OpenAI(base_url="https://api.ailoot.ai/v1",api_key=os.environ["AILOOT_API_KEY"],max_retries=0)
result=client.chat.completions.create(model='claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking',messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Explain observations and hypotheses in three sentences."}])
import base64, json
from pathlib import Path

def save_result(data, stem="result"):
    # Keep every field, including usage, IDs, reasoning and tool requests.
    Path(stem + ".json").write_text(json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2), encoding="utf-8")
    print(json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2))
    def save_blob(encoded, suffix, label):
        raw = base64.b64decode(encoded, altchars=b"-_", validate=True)
        ext = "png" if raw.startswith(b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n") else "jpg" if raw.startswith(b"\xff\xd8") else "webp" if raw[:4] == b"RIFF" and raw[8:12] == b"WEBP" else suffix
        file = Path(stem + "-" + label + "." + ext)
        file.write_bytes(raw)
        print("Saved", file)
    for index, block in enumerate(data.get("content") or []):
        print("Content", index, json.dumps(block, ensure_ascii=False))
    for choice in data.get("choices") or []:
        print("Choice", choice.get("index"), json.dumps(choice.get("message", choice.get("delta", {})), ensure_ascii=False))
    for index, item in enumerate(data.get("output") or []):
        print("Output", index, json.dumps(item, ensure_ascii=False))
        if item.get("type") == "image_generation_call" and item.get("result"):
            save_blob(item["result"], item.get("output_format") or "bin", "output-" + str(index))
    for ci, candidate in enumerate(data.get("candidates") or []):
        for pi, part in enumerate((candidate.get("content") or {}).get("parts") or []):
            print("Candidate/part", ci, pi, json.dumps(part, ensure_ascii=False))
            blob = part.get("inlineData") or part.get("inline_data")
            if blob and blob.get("data"):
                mime = blob.get("mimeType") or blob.get("mime_type")
                suffix = {"image/png":"png", "image/jpeg":"jpg", "image/webp":"webp", "audio/wav":"wav", "audio/mpeg":"mp3", "video/mp4":"mp4"}.get(mime, "bin")
                save_blob(blob["data"], suffix, "candidate-" + str(ci) + "-part-" + str(pi))

save_result(result.to_dict(mode="json"))
from openai import OpenAI
import os
from pathlib import Path

if not os.environ.get("AILOOT_API_KEY", "").strip(): raise SystemExit("Set AILOOT_API_KEY before making a request")
client=OpenAI(base_url="https://api.ailoot.ai/v1",api_key=os.environ["AILOOT_API_KEY"],max_retries=0)
import base64, json
from pathlib import Path

def save_result(data, stem="result"):
    # Keep every field, including usage, IDs, reasoning and tool requests.
    Path(stem + ".json").write_text(json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2), encoding="utf-8")
    print(json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2))
    def save_blob(encoded, suffix, label):
        raw = base64.b64decode(encoded, altchars=b"-_", validate=True)
        ext = "png" if raw.startswith(b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n") else "jpg" if raw.startswith(b"\xff\xd8") else "webp" if raw[:4] == b"RIFF" and raw[8:12] == b"WEBP" else suffix
        file = Path(stem + "-" + label + "." + ext)
        file.write_bytes(raw)
        print("Saved", file)
    for index, block in enumerate(data.get("content") or []):
        print("Content", index, json.dumps(block, ensure_ascii=False))
    for choice in data.get("choices") or []:
        print("Choice", choice.get("index"), json.dumps(choice.get("message", choice.get("delta", {})), ensure_ascii=False))
    for index, item in enumerate(data.get("output") or []):
        print("Output", index, json.dumps(item, ensure_ascii=False))
        if item.get("type") == "image_generation_call" and item.get("result"):
            save_blob(item["result"], item.get("output_format") or "bin", "output-" + str(index))
    for ci, candidate in enumerate(data.get("candidates") or []):
        for pi, part in enumerate((candidate.get("content") or {}).get("parts") or []):
            print("Candidate/part", ci, pi, json.dumps(part, ensure_ascii=False))
            blob = part.get("inlineData") or part.get("inline_data")
            if blob and blob.get("data"):
                mime = blob.get("mimeType") or blob.get("mime_type")
                suffix = {"image/png":"png", "image/jpeg":"jpg", "image/webp":"webp", "audio/wav":"wav", "audio/mpeg":"mp3", "video/mp4":"mp4"}.get(mime, "bin")
                save_blob(blob["data"], suffix, "candidate-" + str(ci) + "-part-" + str(pi))

with client.chat.completions.stream(model='claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking',messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Explain observations and hypotheses in three sentences."}]) as stream:
    with Path("stream-events.jsonl").open("w",encoding="utf-8") as log:
        for event in stream:
            payload=event.to_dict(mode="json")
            log.write(json.dumps(payload,ensure_ascii=False)+"\n"); log.flush()
            print(json.dumps(payload,ensure_ascii=False))
    final=stream.get_final_completion()
    save_result(final.to_dict(mode="json"),"stream-result")

Receive and save results

Ailoot Ultra · OpenAI Chat

json or SSE

Keep all completed results

Keep every complete returned response, file and content part.

Keep every choice and its content/tool calls/reasoning. In SSE assemble deltas by choice/tool index, retain the final finish reason and usage.

If the original response needs checking

Keep request/response IDs and headers. No generic text job retrieval URL is supplied.

Response fields
FieldType
Fieldchoices[].indexTypeinteger
Fieldchoices[].message.contentTypestring|null
Fieldchoices[].message.tool_callsTypetool_call[]
Fieldchoices[].message.reasoning_contentTypestring
Fieldchoices[].message.reasoning_detailsTypeobject|array
Fieldchoices[].finish_reasonTypestring|null
FieldusageTypeobject
Errors and next steps
ResponseConditionNext step
Response400 · invalid_request_errorConditionInvalid required fields, material representation or parameter valueNext stepCorrect the indicated fields before a new creation request.

Aliases

Model aliases

Ailoot Ultra claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking

Method path aliases

Use the method paths shown above.

Related caller IDs

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FAQ · claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking
What inputs and results are available?

POST /v1/chat/completions · claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking: text → text

Which fields does the request use?

POST /v1/chat/completions · claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking: model, messages, stream, modalities, provider

What limits apply?

POST /v1/chat/completions · claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking: messages.min_items: 1

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