Claude 2 vs Claude 2.1: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison
Claude 2 vs Claude 2.1 compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.
Verdict
Claude 2.1 has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 2 can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.
Author: Mirai Minds Research Team
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Overview
Claude 2 was released 4 months before Claude 2.1.
 Claude 2 | Claude 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
Provider The entity that provides this model. | Anthropic | Anthropic |
Input Context Window The number of tokens supported by the input context window. | 100K tokens | 200K tokens |
Maximum Output Tokens The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request. | Not specified. | Not specified. |
Release Date When the model was first released. | Jul 11, 2023 over 1 yearago 2023-07-11 | Nov 23, 2023 over 1 year 2023-11-23 |
Leaderboard
| Claude 2 | Claude 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
Rank | 22 | 25 |
Arena Elo | 1132 | 1119 |
95% CI | +4/-5 | +4/-3 |
Votes | 13413 | 39744 |
License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Knowledge Cutoff | Unknown | Unknown |
Pricing
| Claude 2 | Claude 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
Input Cost of input data provided to the model. | $8.00 per million tokens | $8.00 per million tokens |
Output Cost of output tokens generated by the model. | $24.00 per million tokens | $24.00 per million tokens |
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 2 and Claude 2.1 Instruct.
| Claude 2 | Claude 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
MMLU Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings. | 78.5 (5-shot) | Benchmark not available. |
MMMU A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark. | Benchmark not available. | Benchmark not available. |
HellaSwag A challenging sentence completion benchmark. | Benchmark not available. | Benchmark not available. |