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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 · Sep 18, 2026, 1:08 PM
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$10.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.20

Standard Claude API pricing. Prompt-cache writes are $2.50 per 1M tokens for 5 minutes and $4 per 1M tokens for 1 hour; cache hits/refreshes are $0.20 per 1M tokens. Batch pricing is separate.

Anthropic's current pricing table lists Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens. The same page lists cache hits at $0.20 per 1M tokens; Anthropic's launch post confirms the $2/$10 pricing and says it became permanent on August 10, 2026.

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Model Intelligence

Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Arena ranking
38
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
38.4
Coding Index
71.5
GPQA
0.91
HLE
0.41
SciCode
0.54
LCR
0.82

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