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🇺🇸 United States generalistReleased September 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Anthropic
Verdict

A versatile model, balanced across most use cases.

Overview

Anthropic's latest Sonnet, built for coding and agentic workflows, with a claimed 1M-token context window (max output capped at 128K). Its AA Intelligence Index score (56.0) tops current generalist benchmarks, but real-world adoption is still marginal (0.6% share on OpenRouter over 30 days), so results should be validated against your own workloads before scaling up. As a proprietary model available only through Anthropic's paid API, data is processed on the vendor's US infrastructure — worth checking contractually (DPA, transfer clauses) for any sensitive European use case.

Skill profile

Not disclosed

Strengths

  • Very long context

Limitations

  • No documented EU residency

Who is it for

A good fit if…
    Skip it if…
    • you handle sensitive data with no EU option

    Ideal use cases

    • Autonomous coding agents
    • Code review and generation
    • Long multi-step automation
    • Large document analysis

    Access & availability

    Paid API per token

    Key specifications

    Context
    1M
    Input price
    $2.00/M
    Output price
    $10.00/M
    Speed
    —
    Price not auditedBenchmarks 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

    58/100

    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.

    19/20 criteria documented · 95 %

    Data50
    5/5 · 30 %
    Sovereignty10
    3/3 · 20 %
    Transparency75
    4/4 · 15 %
    Enterprise83
    5/6 · 20 %
    Licence85
    2/2 · 15 %
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    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 / SAML
    SCIM provisioning
    Audit logs
    SOC 2 / ISO 27001
    Vendor private endpointnot documented
    Licence
    Commercial use allowed
    Licence typeproprietary70
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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

    60/100

    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.

    4/6 documented · 2/6 primary sources

    API pricingofficial
    Context windownAIvigate assessment
    Arena Elomissing
    Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…)missing
    LicencenAIvigate assessment
    Data & complianceofficial
    Advanced data · for experts
    Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
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    Architecture
    —
    Size
    —
    Cutoff date
    —
    Inputs
    text, image
    Outputs
    text
    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 Elo—
    MMLU—
    GPQA—
    HumanEval—
    SWE-Bench—
    MATH—

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