Claude Sonnet 5
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Snapshot
Overall
71
rank #12 of 22
Coding
73
rank #10 of 22
Multimodal
76
rank #14 of 22
Input / Output
$3 / $15
USD per 1M tokens
Context
1M
usable recall 95
Speed
~65 tok/s
TTFT 0.5s
Aggregated from public sources and independently weighted; methodology on the Terms page. Scores within 3 points are treated as statistically tied.
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Specs & pricing
Every tracked field. List API prices in USD per 1M tokens; verify current vendor pricing before purchase.
| Vendor | Anthropic (US) |
| Released / current | 2026.06 |
| Licensing | Closed / managed API |
| Context window | 1M |
| Max output | 128K |
| Effective-context score | 95 |
| Input / output price | $3 / $15 per 1M tokens |
| Cache discount | Prompt cache 90% off |
| Free tier | No free tier |
| Speed / TTFT | ~65 tok/s / 0.5s |
| Function calling | 88 |
| Refusal rate | ~8% |
| English / Chinese | 90 / 78 |
| Modalities | text, image |
| Fine-tuning | No |
| Private deployment | No |
| SOC2 / no-train | yes / yes |
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Strengths & watch-outs
Strengths
- Fast
- Moderately priced
- Anthropic quality
- Value flagship
Watch-outs
- Less reasoning depth than Opus
- Average multimodal
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Where it ranks among 22 models
Overall 71/100 (#12), coding 73 (#10), multimodal 76 (#14). See the full boards and side-by-side compare on the leaderboard.
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Pricing in practice
Illustrative monthly bill for 100M input + 30M output tokens: $750 at list; about $507 with 90% of inputs cache-hit. Your mix and cache-hit ratio change this.
Illustrative model using public list rates before any enterprise agreement; cache discount: Prompt cache 90% off.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Claude Sonnet 5 cost?
List API pricing is $3 input and $15 output per 1M tokens. Prompt cache 90% off. No free tier
What is Claude Sonnet 5's context window, and is it usable end to end?
It advertises a 1M window with 128K max output; its effective-context score is 95/100, which is the better predictor of whether long-document details are actually retained.
Is Claude Sonnet 5 good for coding?
Its coding aggregate is 73/100, rank #10 of 22. It is a strong choice for most product engineering.
Can I self-host Claude Sonnet 5?
No. It is a closed managed API; there is no weights download.
How strong is it in Chinese and on multimodal inputs?
Chinese score is 78 versus English 90; multimodal aggregate is 76/100 (rank #14), accepting text, image.