Claude Sonnet 4.5

Language Anthropic Verified Released Sep 29, 2025
  • In Input modalities: TextImage Out Output modalities: Text
  • Reasoning
  • Tool use
  • Structured output

Prices

9 offerings · prices as listed
Claude API (opens in a new tab) Official Global · USD claude-sonnet-4-5
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readCache writeOutput
5-minute cache1-hour cache
Standard $3.00$0.30$3.75$6.00$15.00
Batch $1.50———$7.50

Prices from Claude API pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)

Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).

Details

Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2025
Open weights
—
Family
claude-sonnet
Model ID

Not stated on Anthropic’s pages: max input, reasoning efforts, reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools, aliases.

Cited scores

From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us
  • Epoch Capabilities Index 147.6

    #68 of 118 listed models · CI 146.2–149

  • EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 1,677

    #34 of 94 listed models

  • EQ-Bench Longform Writing 71.4

    #37 of 92 listed models

  • Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Nov 5, 2026
  • EQ-Bench by Samuel J. Paech (eqbench.com; EQ-bench/EQ-bench-site on GitHub), MIT License. · License · as of Oct 28, 2026
  • changes we made

Included in coding plans

All coding plans →

  1. Available → Deprecated on Amazon Bedrock, ap-northeast-1
  2. Available → Deprecated on Amazon Bedrock, eu-central-1
  3. Available → Deprecated on Amazon Bedrock, us-east-1
  4. Available → Deprecated on Amazon Bedrock
  5. 3 new prices on Claude API Cache write (1-hour cache) $6.00 · Input (Batch) $1.50 · Output (Batch) $7.50

Sources

Anthropic’s official policies: data use, privacy, terms →

Anthropic · United States · anthropic.com

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