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Anthropic · Claude 5

Claude Sonnet 5

Closed weightsGenerally availableproprietary

Anthropic's mid-tier Claude for fast, lower-cost agentic coding, tool use and knowledge work.

AA Intelligence
38.2#26 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$2.00/ $10.00
Output speed
70tok/s
Context window
1M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#26 of 142
    38independentv4.3.2, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗
    32independentv4.3.2, high effort (API default)Artificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 (high) ↗
    23independentv4.3.2, thinking offArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 (non-reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • SciCode#25 of 94
    54.3%independentAA run, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#23 of 88
    14.1%independentAA run (Terminal-Bench 4.0), max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗
    12.4%independentmax effort, Claude Code harness, ±3.1Terminal-Bench 4.0 official leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#22 of 103
    80.5%independentAA run (Terminal-Bench 2.1), max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SWE-bench Pro#8 of 31
    63.2%vendorAnthropic-run, max effort, avg of 5 trialsClaude Sonnet 5 System Card, Table 8.1.A ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 89.9%

  • SWE-bench Verified#1 of 16
    85.2%vendorAnthropic-run, max effort, avg of 5 trialsClaude Sonnet 5 System Card, section 8.2 ↗

    Leader: Claude Sonnet 5 at 85.2%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#22 of 103
    1449independentGDPval-AA v2.1, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • BrowseComp#5 of 14
    84.7%vendorsingle agent, max effort (multi-agent 86.6%)Claude Sonnet 5 System Card, Table 8.1.A ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 91.5%

  • OSWorld-Verified#5 of 16
    81.2%vendorOSWorld-Verified, max effortClaude Sonnet 5 System Card, Table 8.1.A ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 84.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#32 of 142
    91.1%independentAA run, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#30 of 147
    57.4%vendorwith tools, max effortClaude Sonnet 5 System Card, Table 8.1.A ↗
    43.2%vendorno tools, max effortClaude Sonnet 5 System Card, Table 8.1.A ↗
    41.3%independentAA run, no tools, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#27 of 139
    16.9%independentAA run, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#18 of 139
    82%independentAA-LCR v1.1, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#28 of 72
    77.3%independentAA run, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#25 of 54
    1461independentclaude-sonnet-5-high; 35,301 votesLMArena text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#29 of 54
    1538independentclaude-sonnet-5-high; 11,645 votesLMArena Code Arena | WebDev leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
SWE-bench Multilingual · max effort78.3%vendorClaude Sonnet 5 System Card ↗
FrontierCode v1 · max effort38.8%vendorClaude Sonnet 5 System Card ↗

Specs

Released
June 30, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text, image
Output
text
Context
1M tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Cached input
$0.20 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$4.40 / 1M
First token
8.63s
  • Price: Claude API pricing ↗ The $2/$10 introductory price is now the permanent standard price; the planned Sep 1, 2026 increase to $3/$15 was cancelled. Batch 50% off.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5 (high effort) ↗

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