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Claude Sonnet 5.5

by Anthropic

Current new · 1d mid tier mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$10.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$4.00

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

Cached input

$0.200

10% of input — prompt caching

Source: official Anthropic pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-29

Price receipt

We read Anthropic's own pricing page on and found Claude Sonnet 5.5 listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 5d5c919004.

Overview

Anthropic's newest Sonnet and the second model of the Claude 5.5 family, launched 2026-09-28 as a faster, lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5. Anthropic says it is a clear upgrade over Sonnet 5, generates 30%+ faster and costs up to 30% less per task because it needs fewer tokens. List price is unchanged from Sonnet 5: $2/$10 per 1M tokens, cache reads $0.20 (10% of input), cache writes $2.50; Batch API halves it to $1/$5; US-only inference is 1.1x. 1M-token context, 128K max output.

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 score69.1%
Perf per $/Mtok17.3
Terminal-Bench 2.1
83.15%
Humanity's Last Exam
55%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 56 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 32.3 (−100–100)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #50 of 97 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #7 of 188 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 4 independent measurements
  • Ranks #124 of 188 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at Humanity's Last Exam — 55%, #10 of 78

Source: Artificial Analysis, Artificial Analysis (text-only, no tools, max effort, default fallback), Vals AI Terminal-Bench 2.1 leaderboard (high effort; 10/267 tasks fell back to Sonnet 5 server-side) · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Anthropic
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
reasoningmid-tiermultimodalagentic

Availability verified: — listed on Anthropic's own page