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Claude Sonnet 5
verified model reference.

Balanced Claude tier combining speed and intelligence for coding, agents, and production knowledge work.

1,000,000context tokens
128,000max output
2026-09-27last verified

PRIMARY-SOURCE VERIFIED

Claude Sonnet 5 at a glance.

Anthropic documents a 1,000,000-token context window. Input modalities: text + image. Output: text. Pricing status: Official paid API.

MODEL IDclaude-sonnet-5
CONTEXT WINDOW1,000,000tokens
MAX OUTPUT128,000
KNOWLEDGE CUTOFF2026-01
STANDARD INPUT$2.00per 1 million tokens
STANDARD OUTPUT$10.00per 1 million tokens

CAPABILITY CONTRACT

Published model behavior.

REASONING

effort controlled · default high

Only provider-documented reasoning controls are shown; missing controls remain unpublished rather than inferred.

INPUT

text + image

Input modalities come from the cited official model documentation.

OUTPUT

text

Output modality and output-limit claims remain separate so an undocumented token cap is not guessed.

PRICING STATUS

Official paid API.

$2.00 input · $0.20 cached · $10.00 output per 1 million tokens.

SXF preserves the provider-published native billing basis. Only calculator-eligible generative token models enter token-cost arithmetic; specialist units and input-only embeddings remain visible without forced conversion.

EXPLORE

Keep the model in context.

OFFICIAL SOURCES

Verification links.

WHAT CHANGED

Claude Sonnet 5: what changed.

No post-baseline factual changes recorded for Claude Sonnet 5 since 2026-09-27.

VERIFIED BASELINE2026-09-27Current facts remain aligned with the SXF ledger.

VERIFIED CHANGE HISTORY

Claude Sonnet 5 verified history.

Open ledger JSON ↗
BASELINE

Claude Sonnet 5

Baseline verified: 1,000,000 context · 128,000 max output · $2.00 input / $0.20 cached / $10.00 output per 1 million tokens

Official evidence ↗

Append-only SXF ledger · 1 verified event · chain head b12eeb63a07e…

EVALUATION EVIDENCE

Claude Sonnet 5 benchmark observations.

Evaluation methodology ↗
independentArtificial Analysis

AA-Briefcase 1.1

1,176 Elo

agentic knowledge work · reasoning high

Evidence ↗
independentArtificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 4.3.2

32

composite intelligence · reasoning high

Evidence ↗
independentArtificial Analysis

AA-LCR 1.1

77.0%

long context reasoning · reasoning high

Evidence ↗
independentArtificial Analysis

AutomationBench-AA

32.0%

business automation · reasoning high

Evidence ↗
independentArtificial Analysis · under review

CritPt

15.0%

frontier science reasoning · reasoning high

Evidence ↗
independentArtificial Analysis

GDPval-AA 2.1

1,258 Elo

professional knowledge work · reasoning high

Evidence ↗
independentArtificial Analysis

Humanity's Last Exam

36.0%

multidisciplinary reasoning · reasoning high

Evidence ↗
independentArtificial Analysis · under review

SciCode

54.0%

scientific coding · reasoning high

Evidence ↗

Scores are shown only with their evaluator, benchmark version and model configuration. They are not merged into a universal model score.