The Model Gap

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5

Released
2026-06-30
License
proprietary
Context window
1,000K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01

Pricing

$2.00 in / $10.00 out per 1M tokens official pricing

In plain English: Mid-tier of the Claude 5 family; Anthropic's docs place its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 in 'Legacy models'. Launch's introductory $2/$10 pricing was later made the standard price — the scheduled increase to $3/$15 will not occur, per the official pricing docs. Adaptive thinking with an effort control that defaults to high. Max output 128k.

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🧠 Reasoning(no tools)
💻 Terminal ops
🛠️ Long-horizon coding
🐛 Bug fixing
🔬 Expert science Q&A
⌨️ Contest coding