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Claude Sonnet 4.5 deprecated, retires 2026-09-29 → Claude Sonnet 5.5

Anthropic has deprecated Claude Sonnet 4.5 (claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929), with retirement set for 2026-09-29, according to the provider's model deprecation announcement. The model, which supports text and vision with a 1000k context window and 64k max output, is being succeeded by Claude Sonnet 5.5. The deprecation affects code that calls the model under aliases including claude-sonnet-4-5, claude-sonnet-4.5, and anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5.

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 deprecated, retires 2026-09-29 → Claude Sonnet 5.5
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AN✕ Retired

Anthropic · claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 Claude Sonnettext+vision1000k context64k max out

also matches:

`claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929`` claude-sonnet-4-5``claude-sonnet-4.5`` microsoft/claude-sonnet-4-5``anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929`` anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5`
[provider announcement →](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations)

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