🇺🇸 United States—Released June 2026
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic
Verdict
A versatile model, balanced across most use cases.
Overview
Claude Sonnet 5, released June 30 2026, succeeds Sonnet 4.6 in Anthropic's mid-tier. Standard pricing $3/$15 per million tokens, preceded by an introductory rate of $2/$10 through August 31 2026. January 2026 knowledge cutoff.
Skill profile
Arena Elo1462
Not disclosed
Strengths
- World-class on Arena
- Very long context
Limitations
- No native GDPR guarantee
Who is it for
A good fit if…
Skip it if…
- you handle sensitive EU data
Access & availability
Paid API per token
Key specifications
Context
1M
Input price
$3.00 $/M
Output price
$15.00 $/M
Speed
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Price not auditedBenchmarks not audited
Estimate your monthly cost
Per-token API pricing$196/ month with Claude Sonnet 5
For the same usage
- GPT-5.6 Luna$73-63%
- GPT-5.6 Terra$181-8%
- Claude Opus 4.6$327+67%
Indicative estimate based on standard API rates (excluding caching, batch and volume discounts). Always check the official pricing before committing.
Privacy
Not GDPR-compliant
Advanced data · for expertsArchitecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks▾
Advanced data · for experts
Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
Architecture
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Size
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Cutoff date
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Inputs
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Outputs
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License
commercial
Hosting
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Hallucination score
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Estimated cost (API)
Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
≈ $0.0240
1M in + 1M out
≈ $18.00
All benchmarks
| Arena Elo | 1462 |
| MMLU | — |
| GPQA | — |
| HumanEval | — |
| SWE-Bench | — |
| MATH | — |