Claude Sonnet 4.5: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a language model from Anthropic, released in September 2025, with multimodal input, a 200K-token context window, and pricing from $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
High-confidence performance for Claude Sonnet 4.5 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.
Performance by conversation depth
How Claude Sonnet 4.5 holds up as conversations get longer.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
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Providers
Claude Sonnet 4.5 starts at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Anthropic | $3.00 | — | $15.00 | 200.0K/64.0K | 0.40 | — | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 context window
Input and output token limits for Claude Sonnet 4.5, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 latency
Claude Sonnet 4.5 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 examples
Recent arena outputs from Claude Sonnet 4.5, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 license
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
- Knowledge cutoff
- January 2025
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Claude Sonnet 4.5 resources
Official sources for Claude Sonnet 4.5: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs other models
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Models like Claude Sonnet 4.5
Models ranked just above and below Claude Sonnet 4.5 by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Claude Sonnet 4.5.