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Claude Sonnet 5
CLOSEDAnthropic · Claude 5 family · released Jun 30, 2026
Model id claude-sonnet-5. Drop-in upgrade for Sonnet 4.6: adaptive thinking on by default, manual extended-thinking removed (400 error), new tokenizer (~30% more tokens for same text vs Sonnet 4.6), non-default sampling params rejected. Introductory pricing $2/$10 per MTok through 2026-08-31, standard pricing $3/$15 thereafter (used here). On Terminal-Bench 2.1 and GDPval-AA v2 it narrowly beats Opus 4.8 despite Sonnet-tier pricing. NO SEPARATE '(High)' PRODUCT: Anthropic's docs state explicitly that setting effort to 'high' 'produces exactly the same behavior as omitting the effort parameter entirely,' and high is the documented default — there is no distinct marketed 'Sonnet 5 (High)' SKU to add as a sibling entry.
ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic
2420.4
Elo · rank #41
Parameters
Undisclosed
Active params
—
Context
1M tokens
Architecture
Dense transformer, architecture undisclosed; adaptive thinking on by default, controlled by a runtime effort parameter (low/medium/high/xhigh/max)
License
Proprietary
Languages
—
API price (in/out)
$3 / $15
Modalities
text · vision
Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
best: GPT-5.2 · 100.0%
best: Kimi K3 · 91.2%
best: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · 90.6%
best: Claude Opus 5 · 43.3%
best: Claude Fable 5 · 1932
best: GPT-6 Astra · 96.0%
best: Claude Opus 5 · 64.7%
best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 93.5%
best: Claude Fable 5 · 85.0%
best: Claude Fable 5.1 · 81.2%
best: Claude Opus 5 · 96.0%
best: Gemini 3.8 Flash · 89.4%
Run it locally
Closed weights — available via API only. No local deployment.
Input / M tok
$3
Output / M tok
$15
Claude 5 family
Elo progression across releases
API price $3/$15 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)