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Claude Sonnet 5

Mid-tier

by Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet-class model, released June 30, 2026 as an upgrade to Sonnet 4.6 that narrows the gap to Opus 4.8 on reasoning, tool use, coding, computer use, and knowledge work while staying priced below the flagship. It launched at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output as introductory pricing through August 31, 2026, but Anthropic cancelled the scheduled September 1 increase to $3 and $15, so $2 and $10 is now the standard rate, with cache hits at $0.20. It ships a 1 million token context window with context compaction and adaptive thinking with selectable effort levels up to xhigh. Anthropic's own numbers show 85.2 on SWE-bench Verified, 63.2 on SWE-bench Pro, 78.3 on SWE-bench Multilingual, 81.2 on OSWorld-Verified, 84.7 on BrowseComp, and 80.4 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (beating Opus 4.8 at 74.6 on that specific benchmark). Available on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex, and Microsoft Foundry at launch.

Input Price

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output Price

$10.00

per 1M tokens

Context Window

1M

tokens

Released

2026-06

API access

Capabilities

textvisiontool-usecodereasoning

Key Strengths

  • ✓1M token context window with context compaction
  • ✓$2/$10 is now standard after Anthropic cancelled the $3/$15 step
  • ✓Adaptive thinking up to xhigh effort level
  • ✓Beats Opus 4.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (80.4 vs 74.6)
  • ✓Day-one availability on Claude API, Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry

Best For

  • ▸Cost-sensitive agentic coding pipelines
  • ▸Long-running tool-use workflows
  • ▸Production RAG and knowledge work
  • ▸Computer-use and browser agents

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkScoreDescription
SWE-bench85.2Real-world software engineering tasks from GitHub issues (SWE-bench Verified)
MMLU-Pro87.5General knowledge and reasoning across 57 subjects
GPQA Diamond88.9Graduate-level science questions verified by domain experts
BrowseComp84.7Agentic web search and browsing over hard-to-find facts
FrontierCode v1.142.7Agentic coding on frontier software engineering tasks (Main split)
Terminal-Bench 4.08.1Long-horizon agentic work in a terminal across software, science, ML, operations, hardware, security, and media (66 tasks, all-or-nothing verifiers)
Humanity's Last Exam (tools)57.4Multidisciplinary expert-level reasoning with tool access

Scores sourced from public benchmark datasets. See full benchmark leaderboard for all models.

Pricing Details

Input tokens

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output tokens

$10.00

per 1M tokens

Estimated cost per 1K requests

$7.00

~1K input + ~500 output tokens avg

Prices are subject to change. Check the official documentation for current pricing. See the cost calculator for detailed estimates.

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