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Claude Sonnet 4.5

The best coding model in the world

A Claude Sonnet model release positioned for coding, agentic work, and computer use.

Pricing

Official site · Sep 23, 2026, 1:07 PM
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.30

Standard global Claude API pricing; official rate card limits the listed Sonnet 4.5 SKU to a context window of ≤200K. Prompt-cache writes: $3.75/MTok for 5 minutes and $6.00/MTok for 1 hour. Batch pricing is $1.50/MTok input and $7.50/MTok output.

Anthropic's current official pricing lists Claude Sonnet 4.5 at $3.00 per million base input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens for standard global Claude API usage. Cache hits/refreshes are explicitly listed at $0.30 per million tokens; 5-minute and 1-hour cache writes are $3.75 and $6.00 per million tokens, respectively. The launch announcement independently states $3/$15 per million tokens.

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Model Intelligence

Context window
200,000 tokens
Arena ranking
19
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
19.3
Math Index
37
MMLU Pro
0.86
GPQA
0.73
HLE
0.07
LiveCodeBench
0.59
AIME 2025
0.37
IFBench
0.43
LCR
0.54
TerminalBench Hard
0.29
TAU2
0.7

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