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Claude 2

Claude 2 is an AI model made by Anthropic. Anthropic released it on 11 July 2023. It is retired. Anthropic retired it on 21 July 2025.

Anthropic

Claude 2 is an AI model made by Anthropic. Anthropic released it on 11 July 2023. It is retired. Anthropic retired it on 21 July 2025. It takes text and returns text. Its context window is 100,000 tokens. Through the API it costs $11.02 per 1M tokens for input and $32.68 per 1M tokens for output. Its knowledge cutoff is 2023.

Released
11 July 2023 — www.anthropic.com, read 16 October 2026
Status
Retired — platform.claude.com, read 16 October 2026
Retired
21 July 2025 — platform.claude.com, read 16 October 2026
Takes
Text — www.anthropic.com, read 16 October 2026
Returns
Text — www.anthropic.com, read 16 October 2026
Open weights
Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not state whether Claude 2's weights are open or downloadable.
Licence
Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not name a licence for Claude 2.
Context window
100,000 tokens — www.anthropic.com, read 16 October 2026
Longest answer
Not confirmed: The maker says Claude 2 can write up to “a few thousand tokens,” but does not print a precise standard output limit.
Knowledge cutoff
2023 — www-cdn.anthropic.com, read 16 October 2026
API price, input
$11.02 per 1M tokens — www-cdn.anthropic.com, read 16 October 2026
API price, output
$32.68 per 1M tokens — www-cdn.anthropic.com, read 16 October 2026
Where
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: api, app, cloud and api, app
Parameters
Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not publish Claude 2's parameter count.
Model card
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/5c49cc247484cecf107c699baf29250302e5da70/claude-2-model-card.pdf — www-cdn.anthropic.com, read 16 October 2026

Benchmarks

Measured by others, not by the maker: each score with the name the measurer gives the model and the setting it ran, its day and its licence.

Epoch AI

Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’, epoch.ai/benchmarks, CC BY 4.0: Epoch AI’s own runs and its Capabilities Index. Data · CC BY 4.0

Questions

When was Claude 2 released?

Anthropic released Claude 2 on 11 July 2023.

Is Claude 2 still available?

No: Anthropic retired Claude 2 on 21 July 2025.

What is the context window of Claude 2?

The context window of Claude 2 is 100,000 tokens, as Anthropic prints it.

How much does the Claude 2 API cost?

On the standard tier, Claude 2 costs $11.02 per 1M tokens for input and $32.68 per 1M tokens for output, as Anthropic lists it.

What does Claude 2 take and return?

Claude 2 takes text and returns text.

What is the knowledge cutoff of Claude 2?

The knowledge cutoff of Claude 2 is 2023.

More from Anthropic

Sources

  1. Claude 2 (read 16 October 2026)
  2. Model Card and Evaluations for Claude Models (read 16 October 2026)
  3. Model deprecations (read 16 October 2026)
  4. Model Pricing (read 16 October 2026)
  5. Claude 2 on Amazon Bedrock (read 16 October 2026)

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