Claude Sonnet 5
- In Input modalities: TextImage Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning· low, medium, high, xhigh, max
- Reasoning can be off
- Tool use
- Structured output
Prices
8 offerings · prices as listed Claude API (opens in a new tab)
claude-sonnet-5| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-minute cache | 1-hour cache | ||||
| Standard | $2.00 | $0.20 | $2.50 | $4.00 | $10.00 |
| Batch | $1.00 | — | — | — | $5.00 |
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 2026
- Family
- claude-sonnet
- Model ID
Not stated on Anthropic’s pages: max input, max thinking budget, built-in tools, aliases.
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us- Epoch Capabilities Index 156.7
#31 of 118 listed models · CI 154.7–158.8
- LMArena Text 1,461
#39 of 163 listed models · high effort · CI 1,457–1,465 · 53,045 votes
- Epoch AI · Chess Puzzles 45%
#29 of 85 listed models · max effort · ±5
Also listed: xhigh effort 34%
- Epoch AI · FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 29.3%
#34 of 65 listed models · max effort · ±7.19
- Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 28 – Nov 5, 2026
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
- EQ-Bench by Samuel J. Paech (eqbench.com; EQ-bench/EQ-bench-site on GitHub), MIT License. · License · as of Oct 24 – 28, 2026
- LiveBench (White et al.), release 2026-06-25, livebench.ai, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This board, adapted from it, is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. · License · as of Jun 25, 2026
- Terminal-Bench 4.0 leaderboard (Marten, Shaw et al., Terminal-Bench; harbor-framework/terminal-bench on GitHub), licensed Apache-2.0. · License · as of Sep 29, 2026
- changes we made
Provider-reported scores
Published by Anthropic, under the conditions it states| Benchmark | Setting | Score |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | adaptive thinking, max effort, average of 5 trials | 85.2% |
| SWE-bench Pro | adaptive thinking, max effort, average of 5 trials | 63.2% |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | adaptive thinking, max effort, average of 5 trials | 78.3% |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | adaptive thinking, max effort, average of 5 trials | 28.1% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | xhigh effort, mini-SWE-agent harness, mean reward over 5 attempts per task (89 tasks) | 80.4% |
| BrowseComp | single agent, adaptive thinking, max effort, 10M-token limit with context compaction | 84.7% |
| multi-agent, adaptive thinking, max effort | 86.6% | |
| Humanity's Last Exam | no tools, max effort | 43.2% |
| with web search, web fetch, programmatic tool calling, code execution; max effort | 57.4% | |
| OSWorld-Verified | first-attempt success rate, averaged over 5 runs, max effort | 81.2% |
Included in coding plans
- GitHub Copilot Pro $10.00 / month1,500 credits per monthVariable additional usage on top of your base. Flex allotments may change over time.15 USD of usage per month
- GitHub Copilot Pro+ $39.00 / month7,000 credits per monthVariable additional usage on top of your base. Flex allotments may change over time.70 USD of usage per month
- GitHub Copilot Max $100.00 / month20,000 credits per monthVariable additional usage on top of your base. Flex allotments may change over time.
- GitHub Copilot Business $19.00 / month1,900 credits per month
- GitHub Copilot Enterprise $39.00 / month3,900 credits per month
- Kiro Pro $20.00 / month1,000 credits per month
- Kiro Pro+ $40.00 / month2,000 credits per month
- Kiro Pro Max $100.00 / month5,000 credits per month
- Kiro Power $200.00 / month10,000 credits per month
Changes
All changes →- Now priced on Amazon Bedrock Input $2.00 · Output $10.00 · Cache write (5-minute cache) $2.50 · Cache write (1-hour cache) $4.00 · +1 more
Sources
- Claude Sonnet 5 model overview (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Claude API pricing (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- System Card: Claude Sonnet 5 (opens in a new tab) www-cdn.anthropic.com · checked Sep 26, 2026
- Claude models overview (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 6, 2026
- Amazon Bedrock pricing (opens in a new tab) aws.amazon.com · checked Nov 3, 2026
- Vertex AI generative AI pricing (opens in a new tab) cloud.google.com · checked Oct 25, 2026
- Structured outputs (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- models.dev: claude-sonnet-5 (community data, MIT) (opens in a new tab) github.com · checked Sep 30, 2026
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