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🇺🇸 United States generalistReleased June 2026

Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic
EU hosting Card data 80/100 Trust Index 51
Verdict

A good performance / EU-hosting balance for a European company.

Overview

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's flagship generalist model, tuned for coding and everyday enterprise tasks, with a one-million-token context window large enough to hold entire codebases or document sets. Anthropic has released no model card or benchmark figures alongside it, so any claim about real-world performance stays unverified for now. The model is closed and cloud-only, hosted on Anthropic's US infrastructure, with no open weights and no on-premise option - a real consideration for European teams with data-residency requirements.

Skill profile

Arena Elo1462

Not disclosed

Strengths

  • World-class on Arena
  • Very long context

Who is it for

A good fit if…
  • your data must stay in the EU
Skip it if…

    Ideal use cases

    • Software development assistance
    • Long codebase review
    • Large document analysis
    • General enterprise support
    • Everyday office automation

    Access & availability

    Paid API per token

    Key specifications

    Context
    1M
    Input price
    $2.00/M
    Output price
    $10.00/M
    Speed
    Price verified Sep 7, 2026·Official sourceBenchmarks not audited

    What it costs per month

    Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.

    Via API
    $80.0 / month
    73.6 € · 20.0 M tokens
    Self-hosted
    Closed weights: no self-hosting

    Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.

    nAIvigate Trust Index

    51/100

    What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.

    17/20 criteria documented · 85 %

    Data50
    5/5 · 30 %
    Sovereignty10
    3/3 · 20 %
    Transparency75
    4/4 · 15 %
    Enterprise50
    3/6 · 20 %
    Licence85
    2/2 · 15 %
    See the criteria
    Data
    EU data residency
    No transfer outside EU
    No training on your data
    Configurable retention
    Zero Data Retention50
    Sovereignty
    Self-hostable (open weights)
    EU hosting offered
    European vendorcountry: US30
    Transparency
    Published licence (URL)
    Public, sourced pricing
    Published compliance commitments
    Subprocessor list published
    Enterprise
    DPA available
    SSO / SAMLnot documented
    SCIM provisioningnot documented
    Audit logs
    SOC 2 / ISO 27001
    Private endpoint / VPCnot documented
    Licence
    Commercial use allowed
    Licence typeproprietary70
    Full ranking and methodology

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    Data & compliance

    What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.

    EU data residencyNo
    Data processing agreement (DPA)Yes
    Transfer outside the EUYes
    Training on your dataNo
    Configurable retentionYes
    Zero Data RetentionOn request
    Self-hostableNo
    Declared hostingUS

    Quality of this card’s data

    80/100

    This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.

    5/6 documented · 4/6 primary sources

    API pricingofficial
    Context windowofficial
    Arena EloLMArena, human preferenceindependent
    Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…)missing
    LicencenAIvigate assessment
    Data & complianceofficial
    Advanced data · for experts
    Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
    Architecture
    Size
    Cutoff date
    Inputs
    Outputs
    License
    proprietary
    Hosting
    US
    Hallucination score
    Estimated cost (API)
    Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
    ≈ $0.0160
    1M in + 1M out
    ≈ $12.00
    All benchmarks
    Arena Elo1462
    MMLU
    GPQA
    HumanEval
    SWE-Bench
    MATH

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