Anthropic retiring Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4 — migrate to 4.6 and 4.7
Action Required
Applications using Claude Sonnet 4 or Claude Opus 4 will experience service unavailability after June 15, 2026, requiring immediate migration to the successor models.
AI Impact Summary
Anthropic is deprecating Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4, marking the end-of-life for these models by June 15, 2026. This necessitates immediate migration to the newer Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.7 models to avoid service disruption. The change impacts any applications currently leveraging these models for inference, requiring a proactive update to the model specification within your infrastructure.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- deprecation
- Severity
- high