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Claude Sonnet 5.5: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a language model from Anthropic, released in September 2026, with multimodal input, a 1M-token context window, and pricing from $2.00/M input, $0.200/M cached input, $10.00/M output.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic’s September 2026 model for everyday agentic coding, document creation, and knowledge work. It supports text and image input, text output, a 1M-token context window, and 128K output tokens. Adaptive thinking

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

Claude Sonnet 5.5 benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for Claude Sonnet 5.5 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How Claude Sonnet 5.5 holds up as conversations get longer.

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 pricing

Providers

Claude Sonnet 5.5 starts at $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic. Reused prompt prefixes cost $0.200 per million cached input tokens.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
Anthropic logoAnthropic
$2.00$0.200$10.001.0M/128.0K
0.40
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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 5.5 context window

Input and output token limits for Claude Sonnet 5.5, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
1Mtokens
128Ktokens
≈ 1.5k pages of text
1M
8K128K1M

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 latency

Claude Sonnet 5.5 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 examples

Recent arena outputs from Claude Sonnet 5.5, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 license

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of June 2026.

License
Proprietary
Hosted access
Knowledge cutoff
June 2026

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 resources

Official sources for Claude Sonnet 5.5: provider documentation, official playground, paper or system card, official launch post.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Claude Sonnet 5.5 are GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Claude Sonnet 5.5

Models ranked just above and below Claude Sonnet 5.5 by LLM Stats score.

 

GPT-6 Astra

Score pending
 

Claude Opus 5.5

Score pending
 

GPT-5.6 Sol

Score pending
 

Claude Mythos 5.1

Score pending
 

MiMo-V2.6-Pro

Score pending
 

Grok 4.7

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Claude Sonnet 5.5.

When was Claude Sonnet 5.5 released?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 was released on September 28, 2026 by Anthropic. This is the official Claude Sonnet 5.5 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Claude Sonnet 5.5 cost?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 pricing starts at $2.00 per million input tokens, $0.20 per million cached input tokens, $10.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Who created Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 was created by Anthropic.

What is the license for Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is released under the Proprietary license.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has a knowledge cutoff of June 2026, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 multimodal?

Yes, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is Claude Sonnet 5.5 latency?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 p95 time to first token is 0.40 seconds via Anthropic over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and model workloads.

Where can I use Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available through 1 provider including Anthropic.

Where is the Claude Sonnet 5.5 paper or technical report?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has a paper or technical report available at https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5-system-card. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Claude Sonnet 5.5 against?

Common Claude Sonnet 5.5 comparisons include Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and provider availability.