Claude Sonnet 5: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 5 is a language model from Anthropic, released in June 2026, with multimodal input, a 1M-token context window, and pricing from $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output.
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet-class model, an upgrade to Sonnet 4.6 that narrows the gap to Opus 4.8 on reasoning, tool use, coding, computer use, and knowledge work while staying lower priced. It plans, uses tools
Claude Sonnet 5 benchmarks
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Claude Sonnet 5 Performance Across Datasets
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llm-stats.com - Sat Jul 18 2026Claude Sonnet 5 pricing
Providers
Claude Sonnet 5 starts at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic.
| Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Workload 1M + 100K | Context in / out | TTFT p50 / p95 s | Output avg / p5 c/s | Success 7d | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 | $4.50 | 1.0M/64.0K | 11.74/318.83 | 199/32 | 92.68%(82) | / |
Workload cost uses 1M input tokens plus 100K output tokens at published list prices without assuming a cache hit. 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. Success is calculated from completed versus failed requests over the trailing seven days.
Claude Sonnet 5 context window
Input and output token limits for Claude Sonnet 5, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
Claude Sonnet 5 API
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Use it in your code
Billed at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens through the LLM Stats gateway.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
base_url="https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="claude-sonnet-5",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.
Claude Sonnet 5 latency
Claude Sonnet 5 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
Provider operational metrics
Time to first token, output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic
Claude Sonnet 5 examples
Recent arena outputs from Claude Sonnet 5, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Claude Sonnet 5 license
Claude Sonnet 5 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms.
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- Proprietary
- Hosted access
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Claude Sonnet 5 resources
Official sources for Claude Sonnet 5: api documentation, official playground, paper or system card, official launch post.
Claude Sonnet 5 vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to Claude Sonnet 5 are Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Mythos Preview, Claude Opus 4.5. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like Claude Sonnet 5
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FAQ
Common questions about Claude Sonnet 5.