[Bug] Anthropic API Error: Invalid max_tokens for claude-3-opus-20240229

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Nov 9, 2025 by bfrichot Closed Nov 13, 2025

Bug Description
⎿ API Error: 400 {"error":{"message":"{\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"max_tokens: 21333 > 4096, which is the maximum allowed
number of output tokens for claude-3-opus-20240229\"},\"request_id\":\"req_011CUwZTS7TYAH8UyTro83sP\"}. Received Model Group=claude-haiku-4-5-20251001\nAvailable Model Group
Fallbacks=None","type":"None","param":"None","code":"400"}}

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: iTerm.app
  • Version: 2.0.36
  • Feedback ID: fc60ba07-e91f-4d46-add9-ef1fa578c9ae

Errors

[{"error":"AxiosError: Request failed with status code 401\n    at WT (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:51:1136)\n    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:56:9845)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:events:520:35)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1701:12)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)\n    at sGA.request (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:58:2129)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at async ft2 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:3771:7832)","timestamp":"2025-11-09T09:57:01.883Z"},{"error":"Error: 400 {\"error\":{\"message\":\"400: {'error': 'completion: Invalid model name passed in model=claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929'}\",\"type\":\"None\",\"param\":\"None\",\"code\":\"400\"}}\n    at L4.generate (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:428:26211)\n    at U_.makeStatusError (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:707:2117)\n    at U_.makeRequest (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:707:5341)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at async Js2.wrA.model (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:3512:15108)\n    at async wrA (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:2026:39781)\n    at async Js2 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:3512:15262)\n    at async file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:3512:8918\n    at async q00 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:3512:1970)\n    at async H6A (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:3512:8888)","timestamp":"2025-11-09T09:57:04.345Z"}]

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