Anthropic · Frontier
Claude Sonnet Latest
Compatibility alias that routes to the newest version of Claude Sonnet. Currently routes to Claude Sonnet 5.5 Thinking.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high · xhigh · max
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $2.00
- Output
- $10.00
- Cache read
- $0.10
- 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)
- 1K tokens
- Longer than 71% of 473 models
Side by side
Claude Sonnet Latest compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Claude Sonnet LatestAnthropicThis model | Claude Sonnet 4.6AnthropicRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Frontier |
| Added | Mar 1, 2026 | Feb 17, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Average output | 1K tokens | 401 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $2.00Best | $3.00 |
| Output | $10.00Best | $15.00 |
| Cache read | $0.10Best | $0.30 |
| Cache write | $2.50 | — |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 237.9 tok/sBest | 78.6 tok/s |
| Time to first token | 5.4 s | 1.5 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 99.1% | 99.5%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 46.8Best | 24.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, medium, high, xhigh, max | 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 Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
Intelligence Index
- Claude Sonnet Latest46.8
- Claude Sonnet 4.624.7
Claude Sonnet Latest tested at high reasoning effort
Claude Sonnet Latest: Better than 93% of 326 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 59.4%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 29.4%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 1,635 Elo
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 1,548 Elo
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 25.2%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 78.0%Top
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 68.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 18.9%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 45.8%Top
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 13.3%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Claude Sonnet Latest: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 79.9%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Claude Sonnet Latest: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 41.2%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 43.9%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 53.7%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Claude Sonnet Latest: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.2%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Claude Sonnet Latest: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 79.5%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Claude Sonnet Latest: 78.0%Top
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 68.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Claude Sonnet Latest was tested at high reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- Claude Sonnet Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | Claude Sonnet Latest | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1528.2 |
| Longer Query | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1492.3 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1499.6 |
| Vision Style Control · English | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1282.8 |
| Document Overall | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1482.2 |
| Document Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1477.7 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Claude Sonnet Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | Claude Sonnet Latest | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not in top 20 | #8 · 75.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- Claude Sonnet Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | Claude Sonnet Latest | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1200 |
| Longform Writing | Not in top 20 | #16 · 79.9 |
| EQ-Bench 3 | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1710 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- Claude Sonnet Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | Claude Sonnet Latest | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| ASCII Art | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1233 |
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1140 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1213 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1198 |
| Mobile Apps | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1211 |
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
- 237.9 tok/s
- Faster than 89% of 256 models
- Time to first token
- 5.4 s
- Quicker than 26% of 256 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- About $2.00 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.0%
- 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-latest",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"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-latest",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Anthropic
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