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Anthropic claude-3-opus-20240229

Claude Opus 3 (Anthropic)

Retired

Yes — Claude Opus 3 is retired. Anthropic deprecated it on June 30, 2025 and shut it down on January 5, 2026; API requests to it now fail. The recommended replacement is Claude Opus 4.8.

The first Claude to beat GPT-4 on published benchmarks, and the model that put Anthropic in serious contention. It had an unusually long deprecation window — six months — and its retirement prompted Anthropic's public commitments on preserving model weights after shutdown.

The facts

Provider Anthropic
Model id claude-3-opus-20240229
Released February 29, 2024
Deprecated June 30, 2025
Shutdown January 5, 2026 · 206 days ago
Status Retired
Last verified July 30, 2026

What to use instead

Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 claude-opus-4-8 Provider-recommended Shutdown scheduled

Opus 4.8 is cheaper per token than Opus 3 was, has a 1M-token context window against 200k, and rejects temperature, top_p and top_k.

What parameters claude-opus-4-8 accepts on modelparams.dev

Change the id

In most cases the migration is one string. Check the parameter differences before you ship — newer models drop older sampling knobs more often than they add them. 

- "model": "claude-3-opus-20240229"
+ "model": "claude-opus-4-8"

Frequently asked questions

When did Anthropic Claude Opus 3 shut down?
Anthropic Claude Opus 3 shut down on January 5, 2026. API requests to it fail from that date onward.
What replaces Anthropic Claude Opus 3?
Anthropic recommends Claude Opus 4.8 (`claude-opus-4-8`) as the replacement for Anthropic Claude Opus 3. Opus 4.8 is cheaper per token than Opus 3 was, has a 1M-token context window against 200k, and rejects temperature, top_p and top_k.
Is Anthropic Claude Opus 3 still available?
No. Anthropic Claude Opus 3 is retired and no longer served — it was shut down on January 5, 2026. Calls to it return an error.
How do I migrate from Anthropic Claude Opus 3 to claude-opus-4-8?
Swap the model id in your API call: replace "claude-3-opus-20240229" with "claude-opus-4-8". Opus 4.8 is cheaper per token than Opus 3 was, has a 1M-token context window against 200k, and rejects temperature, top_p and top_k.

Sources

Found something wrong? The data is one YAML file — edit it on GitHub.

This page, for machines

JSON Markdown Badge JSON

Drop the badge in a README so it turns red the day this model is retired:

[![claude-3-opus-20240229](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://modeldeprecations.dev/badge/anthropic/claude-3-opus-20240229.json)](https://modeldeprecations.dev/anthropic/claude-3-opus-20240229)

Other Anthropic models

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How to use this site

The full guide, in Markdown. Copy it and hand it to a coding agent verbatim.

# How to use modeldeprecations.dev

[modeldeprecations.dev](https://modeldeprecations.dev) answers one question per model: is it deprecated,
when does it shut down, and what replaces it. Every date on the site is cited to the
provider's own documentation, with the date we last checked it.

Three lifecycle states are used, matching the providers' own vocabulary:

- **active** — still supported, no deprecation announced.
- **deprecated** — the provider has announced it is going away. It still answers requests.
- **retired** — API access is gone. Requests fail.

A model can be active *and* carry a shutdown date: Anthropic publishes a
"not sooner than" date and Google publishes an earliest shutdown date for models
that are current and fully supported. Those are reported as scheduled shutdowns,
not deprecations, because that is what the provider actually committed to.

## Check one model

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/models/openai/gpt-4-32k.json
```

Or fetch the page as Markdown, which includes the answer, the dates and the sources:

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/openai/gpt-4-32k.md
```

## Full catalog

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/models.json
```

Ids are `provider/model`. Dated snapshots (`gpt-4-32k-0613`) are listed as aliases of
their canonical entry rather than as separate records.

Each entry carries `computed_status`, the lifecycle state recomputed against the build
date — so a model whose shutdown has passed reads `retired` without anyone editing data.

## Badges

A shields.io endpoint per model, for READMEs that should go red when a model dies:

```
https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://modeldeprecations.dev/badge/openai/gpt-4-32k.json
```

## Calendar and changelog

- Subscribe to every shutdown date: https://modeldeprecations.dev/calendar.ics
- Changelog RSS: https://modeldeprecations.dev/changelog.xml

## JSON Schema

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/schema.json
```

## Contribute

Data lives in YAML under `models/{provider}/{model}.yaml` in the
[GitHub repo](https://github.com/mnfst/modeldeprecations.dev). Every lifecycle date needs a source URL; CI rejects a
date without one. Open a PR.

## For agents

- Machine-readable overview: https://modeldeprecations.dev/llms.txt
- This guide plus every model inline: https://modeldeprecations.dev/llms-full.txt
- Any page also exists as Markdown: append `.md` to a model URL.
- In a browser, this site registers a **WebMCP** tool on `navigator.modelContext`:
  `check_model_deprecation`, `list_shutdowns`, `find_replacement`, and `get_usage_guide`.
- Parameters each model accepts are catalogued on the sibling site, https://modelparams.dev.