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Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 language model with 1M context and adaptive thinking.

Claude Sonnet 5 is presented in the supplied evidence context as a language-model release from Anthropic, launched across Claude, the API, and Claude Code with a 1M-token context window, adaptive thinking, and introductory $2/$10 per-million-token pricing.

Pricing

Official site · Oct 27, 2026, 7:08 AM
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$10.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.20

Prompt-cache rates: $2.50 per million tokens for 5-minute cache writes, $4 per million for 1-hour cache writes, and $0.20 per million cache hits/refreshes. Anthropic states that $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, initially introductory through August 31, 2026, is now standard pricing; the planned September 1 increase did not occur.

Anthropic's official pricing documentation explicitly lists Claude Sonnet 5 prices, and its model-specific documentation confirms the exact model and token rates. Current standard rates are $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

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Model Intelligence

Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Arena ranking
23
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
38.2
Coding Index
71.5
GPQA
0.91
HLE
0.41
SciCode
0.54
LCR
0.82

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