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  "provider": "anthropic",
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  "name": "Claude Instant 1.0",
  "aliases": [],
  "description": "The first of Anthropic's cheap, fast models — the ancestor of everything now called Haiku. Instant traded depth for latency and price, which is what made Claude viable for classification and moderation work in 2023.",
  "deprecated_on": "2024-09-04",
  "shutdown_on": "2024-11-06",
  "status": "retired",
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      "provider": "anthropic",
      "model": "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001",
      "recommended": true,
      "note": "Two generations and a whole API separate these. Claude 1 predates the Messages API, so a migration means moving off /v1/complete and its \"\\n\\nHuman:\"/\"\\n\\nAssistant:\" prompt format entirely.",
      "external": false
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-deprecations",
      "title": "Anthropic model deprecations",
      "accessed": "2026-07-30"
    }
  ],
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  "computed_status": "retired",
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