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Anthropic · Claude 5

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Closed weightsGenerally availableNewproprietary

Anthropic's current Sonnet (Sep 2026), scoring within a few points of Opus 5.5 on agentic coding and knowledge work at half the token price.

AA Intelligence
56#2 of 143
Input / output per 1M
$2.00/ $10.00
Output speed
—
Context window
1M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#2 of 143
    56independentv4.3.2, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5.5 ↗
    47independentv4.3.2, high effort (API default)Artificial Analysis: Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 (effort variants) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • SWE-bench Pro#2 of 32
    81.3%vendorAnthropic-run, max effort, avg of 5 trialsClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card, Table 8.1.A ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 89.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#1 of 89
    70.6%vendormax effort, Claude Code harness, ±2.5 SEClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card, section 8.5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 70.6%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#2 of 104
    1844independentGDPval-AA v2.1, max effort; run by Artificial Analysis on a pre-release deploymentClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card, section 8.14.3 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • OSWorld-Verified#7 of 17
    80.1%vendorOSWorld 2.1 partial score (strict 43.5%), max effortClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card, Table 8.1.A ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 84.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#1 of 148
    64.5%vendorwith tools, max effortClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card, Table 8.1.A ↗
    56.9%vendorno tools, max effortClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card, Table 8.1.A ↗

    Leader: Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 64.5%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
SWE-bench Multilingual · max effort, avg of 5 trials90.3%vendorClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card ↗
SWE-bench Multimodal · max effort, avg of 5 trials54.3%vendorClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card ↗
DeepSWE v1.1 · max effort, avg of 5 trials71.0%vendorClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card ↗
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) · xhigh effort, run by Cognition (46.2% at max)52.1%vendorClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card ↗
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 · max effort59.9%vendorClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card ↗
CursorBench 4.0 · max effort, run by Cursor55.5%vendorAnthropic: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 ↗
AA-Briefcase v1.1 · max effort; run by Artificial Analysis on a pre-release deployment1811 EloindependentClaude Sonnet 5.5 System Card, section 8.14.4 ↗

Specs

Released
September 28, 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
  • Price: Claude API pricing ↗ Same price as Sonnet 5. Batch 50% off. Adaptive thinking by default; default effort high.

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