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Claude Sonnet 4.5

by Anthropic

Deprecated mid tier mid tier
Deprecated — shuts down . Still purchasable until then, but the provider has announced end-of-life. Don't start new work on it. Migration target: Claude Sonnet 5.5. Full deprecation status & replacements →
Availability: Anthropic deprecated Claude Sonnet 4.5 (claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929) on 2026-09-30 and retires it from the Claude API on 2026-11-30. It stays available, billed at the listed rate, until that date; Anthropic's recommended replacement is Claude Sonnet 5.5.

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$3.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$15.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$6.00

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.300

10% of input — prompt caching

Source: official Anthropic pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-10-30

Price receipt

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Overview

Deprecated: Anthropic retires Claude Sonnet 4.5 from the Claude API on 2026-11-30, after which requests to it fail. Until then it is still sold at $3/$15 per 1M tokens. Sonnet-tier model with hybrid reasoning; Anthropic recommends Sonnet 5.5 instead.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/4
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video
Output
Text ✓
Features 4/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning ✓ Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score75.1%
Perf per $/Mtok12.5
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
SWE-Bench Verified
82%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
42.8%
MCP Atlas
59.5%
AIME 2025
87%
MMMLU
89.1%
HumanEval
82%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 20.7 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -0.1 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 915.8 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #32 of 100 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #94 of 194 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 10 independent measurements
  • Ranks #177 of 194 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at MMMLU — 89.1%, #5 of 32

69 tokens/sec output 31s latency to first token (TTFT)

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Anthropic
Context window
200K tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Status
Deprecated ends
Last updated
Tags
reasoningmid-tiermultimodal

Availability verified: — per Anthropic's own deprecation notice