Anthropic · Frontier
Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 supports coding, agentic workflows, long-context reasoning, computer use, and practical knowledge work.
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $2.00
- Output
- $10.00
- Cache read
- $0.20
- Cache write
- $2.50
- $4.00 for a 1-hour cache
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 291 tokens
- Longer than 30% of 473 models
Side by side
Claude Sonnet 5 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Claude Sonnet 5AnthropicThis model | Claude Sonnet LatestAnthropicRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Frontier |
| Added | Jun 30, 2026 | Mar 1, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Average output | 291 tokens | 1K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Output | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Cache read | $0.20 | $0.10Best |
| Cache write | $2.50 | $2.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 102.8 tok/s | 237.9 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 12.1 s | 5.4 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 99.8%Best | 99.1% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 38.2 | 46.8Best |
| Coding Index | 71.5 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet Latest
Intelligence Index
- Claude Sonnet 538.2
- Claude Sonnet Latest46.8
Claude Sonnet 5 tested at max reasoning effort
Claude Sonnet 5: Better than 82% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Claude Sonnet 5: 71.5
- Claude Sonnet Latest: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Claude Sonnet 5: 36.5%
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 59.4%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Claude Sonnet 5: 10.8%
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 29.4%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Claude Sonnet 5: 1,357 Elo
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 1,635 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Claude Sonnet 5: 1,464 Elo
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 1,548 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Claude Sonnet 5: 13.2%
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 25.2%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Claude Sonnet 5: 82.0%Top
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 78.0%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Claude Sonnet 5: 5.0%
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 18.9%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Claude Sonnet 5: 41.3%
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 45.8%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Claude Sonnet 5: 91.1%
- Claude Sonnet Latest: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Claude Sonnet 5: 14.1%
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 43.9%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Claude Sonnet 5: 54.3%Top
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 53.7%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Claude Sonnet 5: 82.0%Top
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 78.0%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Claude Sonnet 5 was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet Latest
| Leaderboard | Claude Sonnet 5 | Claude Sonnet Latest |
|---|---|---|
| Document Overall | #14 · 1466.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Document Style Control Overall | #12 · 1475.7 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet Latest
| Leaderboard | Claude Sonnet 5 | Claude Sonnet Latest |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | #19 · 42.7% | Not in top 20 |
| FrontierCode Extended | #20 · 56.2% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet Latest
| Leaderboard | Claude Sonnet 5 | Claude Sonnet Latest |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | #13 · 1225 | Not in top 20 |
| Longform Writing | #20 · 78.3 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet Latest
| Leaderboard | Claude Sonnet 5 | Claude Sonnet Latest |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic Game Dev | #7 · 1188 | Not in top 20 |
| Web Apps | #11 · 1244 | Not in top 20 |
| Full Stack | #9 · 1249 | Not in top 20 |
| Native Apps | #7 · 1228 | Not in top 20 |
| Mobile Apps | #14 · 1211 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 102.8 tok/s
- Faster than 63% of 256 models
- Time to first token
- 12.1 s
- Quicker than 6% of 256 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 73.9%
- About $0.67 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.9%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Anthropic
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