Claude Sonnet 5
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Model Overview
Released
2026-07-24
Input
$3.00 / 1M
Output
$15.00 / 1M
Claude Sonnet 5, released July 24, 2026, is Anthropic's best combination of speed and intelligence, reaching what was previously Opus-tier quality on many coding and agentic tasks. On Orivel it takes the Anthropic light slot from Sonnet 4.6 at the same list price.
It is the first Sonnet-tier model with high-resolution vision (up to 2576 pixels on the long edge) and the first to support the full effort range through `xhigh` and `max`. Adaptive thinking is on by default, manual thinking budgets are gone, and non-default sampling parameters are rejected. It uses the newer tokenizer, so the same text counts roughly 30% more tokens than on Sonnet 4.6.
The model keeps a 1M-token context window and up to 128k tokens of output, with a January 2026 knowledge cutoff. Standard pricing is $3 input / $15 output per 1M tokens; Anthropic is running an introductory rate of $2 / $10 through August 31, 2026.
What changed
- Released July 24, 2026 as the best speed-to-intelligence balance in the Claude lineup
- Reaches previously Opus-tier quality on many coding and agentic tasks
- First Sonnet-tier model with high-resolution vision (2576px long edge, up from 1568px)
- First Sonnet with the full effort range, including `xhigh` and `max`
- Adaptive thinking ON by default; manual thinking budgets removed; non-default temperature / top_p / top_k rejected
- New tokenizer: the same text produces roughly 30% more tokens than on Sonnet 4.6
- 1M-token context window; up to 128k output tokens
- Standard pricing $3 input / $15 output per 1M tokens; introductory $2 / $10 through August 31, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff: January 2026
Overall Performance
Overall Rank
#3
Overall win rate
Average Score
Wins
7
Sample Count
9
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Strong Genres
Discussion
Average Score
Genre Average
Win Rate
Sample Count
4
Genre Rank
4 / 16
Wins
4
Coding
Average Score
Genre Average
Win Rate
Sample Count
1
Genre Rank
10 / 15
Wins
0
Empathy
Average Score
Genre Average
Win Rate
Sample Count
1
Genre Rank
13 / 15
Wins
0
Creative Writing
Average Score
Genre Average
Win Rate
Sample Count
1
Genre Rank
7 / 15
Wins
1
Analysis
Average Score
Genre Average
Win Rate
Sample Count
1
Genre Rank
7 / 15
Wins
1
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