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Claude Sonnet 4

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Anthropic · Claude 4 family · released May 22, 2025

Balanced Claude 4 model matching Opus 4 on SWE-bench Verified at a fraction of the price.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic
1566.9
Elo · rank #124
Parameters
Undisclosed
Active params
—
Context
200K tokens
Architecture
Dense transformer, hybrid-reasoning (parameter count undisclosed)
License
Proprietary
Languages
—
API price (in/out)
$3 / $15
Modalities
text · vision
Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
AIMEMath70.5%#104
best: GPT-5.2 · 100.0%
GPQA DiamondReasoning75.4%#107
best: GPT-6 Astra · 96.0%
MMLUKnowledge86.5%#40
best: OpenAI o3 · 92.9%
MMMUVision74.4%#37
best: Claude Fable 5 · 89.3%
SWE-bench VerifiedCoding72.7%#54
best: Claude Opus 5 · 96.0%
tau-benchAgents80.5%#4
best: Claude Opus 4.1 · 82.4%
Terminal-BenchCoding35.5%#10
best: Claude Opus 4.5 (High) · 59.3%
Run it locally
Closed weights — available via API only. No local deployment.
Input / M tok
$3
Output / M tok
$15
Claude 4 family
Elo progression across releases
Claude Opus 4May 20251674.4Claude Sonnet 4May 20251566.9Claude Opus 4.1Aug 20251733.8Claude Sonnet 4.5Sep 20251938.8Claude Haiku 4.5Oct 20251556.0Claude Opus 4.5Nov 20252228.2Claude Opus 4.5 (High)Nov 20252261.5Claude Opus 4.5 (Medium)Nov 20252255.6Claude Opus 4.6Feb 20262433.7Claude Sonnet 4.6Feb 20262417.2Claude Opus 4.7Apr 20262674.5Claude Opus 4.8May 20262756.0
Resources
DOCSplatform.claude.com
API price $3/$15 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)