Claude Sonnet 5
AnthropicAnthropic's balanced mid-tier Claude model, between Haiku's speed and Opus's depth.
Main uses: Production chat, coding assistants and RAG pipelines that need strong quality without Opus pricing.
What sets it apart: Same 1M-token context as Opus 5, at a quarter of the output price ($10 vs $25 per 1M).
| Route | In | Out | Blended | vs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2.00 | $10.00 | $4.00 | - | |
| $2.00 | $10.00 | $4.00 | +0% | |
| $2.00 | $10.00 | $4.00 | +0% | |
| $2.00 | $10.00 | $4.00 | +0% | |
| $2.00 | $10.00 | $4.00 | +0% |
● official API · ● cloud platform · ● inference host · USD per 1M tokens. Same model, different providers - price and quantization vary.
- Ctx
- 1M
- max output
- 128K
- cache read /1M
- $0.20
- Family
- claude
- Modalities
- text · image · file
- Features
- json · reasoning · tools
Live pricing, updated 2026-11-03.
| Model | In | Out | Ctx |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1 | $5 | 200K |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2 | $10 | 1M |
| Claude Sonnet 5 · this model | $2 | $10 | 1M |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3 | $15 | 1M |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3 | $15 | 1M |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4 | $20 | 1M |