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Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 retire June 15

2026-06-12 digest confirmed

  • Category: AI
  • Status: confirmed
  • Sources: Anthropic model deprecations, migration guide
  • Summary: claude-sonnet-4-20250514 and claude-opus-4-20250514 are removed from the Claude API at 09:00 PT on 2026-06-15. No grace period. Requests to retired model IDs will fail immediately. Successors are claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-opus-4-8.
  • Why it matters: Any production integration still pinning the May 2025 model IDs will break on Monday morning.
  • Follow-up: Confirm migration complete and no breakage after June 15.

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