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Claude Sonnet 5

by Anthropic

Current 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

How this price is scoped: Standard pricing, per 1M tokens — not a promotional rate. $2/$10 was announced at launch as introductory pricing through Aug 31 2026, but Anthropic's pricing page now states that it "is now the standard price" and that "the previously scheduled increase to $3/$15 per million input/output tokens on September 1, 2026 will not occur". There is therefore no reversion date to watch. Verified 2026-08-13 against platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing.

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

Price receipt

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Overview

Anthropic's Sonnet from 2026-06-30, still sold but succeeded by Sonnet 5.5 on 2026-09-28. Its most agentic Sonnet at launch — performance approaching Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the price, strong on reasoning, tool use, coding and autonomous agent workloads. $2/$10 per 1M tokens — first announced as launch pricing, now Anthropic's standard price; the increase once scheduled for Sep 1 2026 will not happen.

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 score81.5%
Perf per $/Mtok20.4
GPQA Diamond
96.2%
SWE-Bench Verified
85.2%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
80.4%
BrowseComp
84.7%
OSWorld-Verified
81.2%
Humanity's Last Exam
57.4%
HumanEval
85.2%
AutoBench *
13.5%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 38.2 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 16.4 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1598.2 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1461.2 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #12 of 97 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #26 of 188 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 11 independent measurements
  • Ranks #134 of 188 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at GPQA Diamond — 96.2%, #1 of 74

56.3 tokens/sec output 20.69s latency to first token (TTFT)

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · 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