Overview
Claude 4.0 is the foundational model that launched the Claude 4 series. While newer models have surpassed it, Claude 4.0 remains a solid choice for basic tasks and is available at the lowest pricing tier in the Claude family, making it ideal for budget-conscious applications.
Context Window
200K tokens
Knowledge Cutoff
January 2025
Pricing (Input)
$1.00 / 1M tokens
Pricing (Output)
$5.00 / 1M tokens
✅Strengths
- ✓Most affordable Claude model
- ✓Still capable for everyday tasks
- ✓200K context at entry-level pricing
- ✓Well-tested, stable performance
- ✓Good for learning and experimentation
⚠️Weaknesses
- ✗Oldest knowledge cutoff (Jan 2025)
- ✗Least capable Claude 4 series model
- ✗Slower than Haiku, less capable than Sonnet
- ✗Closed weights - API only
Best Use Cases
💬 Simple Chatbots
Basic Q&A, FAQs
📝 Drafting
Emails, simple content
🔍 Summarization
Document summaries
🎓 Learning
Experimentation, testing
📊 Basic Analysis
Simple data tasks
🌐 Translation
Basic multilingual
Benchmarks
MMLU82.1%
HumanEval78.5%
GSM8K81.3%