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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5

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Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max, and x-high), a 1M-token context window, and text, image, and file inputs. Sonnet 5 uses an updated tokenizer and includes real-time cyber safeguards that block certain high-risk dual-use activities.

Modalities
In / out price
$2 / $10per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Jun 30, 2026
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ProvidersPricingPerformanceUptimeBenchmarksAppsActivityDocumentationFAQExplore

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and Vals AI)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (High) HLE35.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (High) AA-LCR76.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (High) GDPval-AA38.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (High) CritPt15.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (High) SciCode54.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (High) Terminal-Bench 4.05.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Low) HLE21.9%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Low) AA-LCR67.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Low) GDPval-AA28.8%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Low) CritPt4.6%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Low) SciCode50.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Low) Terminal-Bench 4.02.5%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Xhigh) HLE39.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Xhigh) AA-LCR76.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Xhigh) GDPval-AA43.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Xhigh) CritPt15.4%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Xhigh) SciCode54.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Xhigh) Terminal-Bench 4.07.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) Coding Index71.5
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) Agentic Index43.6
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) GPQA Diamond91.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) HLE41.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) AA-LCR82.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) τ-Bench Banking37.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) GDPval-AA48.5%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) CritPt16.9%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) SciCode54.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) Terminal-Bench 4.014.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Max) Terminal-Bench 2.180.5%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Medium) HLE30.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Medium) AA-LCR73.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Medium) GDPval-AA33.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Medium) CritPt8.6%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Medium) SciCode51.6%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Medium) Terminal-Bench 4.02.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High) Coding Index66.4
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High) GPQA Diamond80.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High) HLE19.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High) AA-LCR70.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High) τ-Bench Banking15.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High) GDPval-AA36.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High) CritPt1.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High) Terminal-Bench 2.175.3%
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Agenticgamedev Elo1172
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Androidnative Elo1220
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Blender3d Elo1004
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Codetovideo Elo1126
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Full Stack Elo1249
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Godotgamedev Elo1223
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Htmlslides Elo1114
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Mobile Apps Elo1208
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Pdf Elo1216
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Python-Pptxslides Elo1170
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Spreadsheet Elo1152
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Agents Arena Webapps Elo1229
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Models Arena 3D Elo1257
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Models Arena Asciiart Elo1204
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Models Arena Code Categories Elo1274
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo1251
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Models Arena Game Development Elo1275
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Models Arena SVG Elo1190
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Models Arena UI Component Elo1274
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 5 Models Arena Website Elo1273
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Code Migration44.4%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 CorpFin v267.0%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 CyberBench v1.161.9%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 EMB66.3%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Finance Agent (v2)53.9%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 GPQA Diamond88.9%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v15.0%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 IOI45.0%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 LiveCodeBench82.4%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 LegalBench83.9%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Legal Research Bench41.8%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 MedCode47.5%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 MedScribe76.1%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 MMLU Pro87.5%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 MMMU Pro83.0%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 MortgageTax70.0%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 ProgramBench0.0%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 ProofBench v1.177.0%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Public Benefits Bench v1.166.0%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 SAGE v148.9%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 SkillsBench46.5%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 SRE Bench0.4%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 SWE-bench79.6%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Tax Agent Bench29.4%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 TaxEval v275.6%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Terminal-Bench 4.010.6%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Terminal-Bench-Science5.7%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Vals Index51.9%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Vals Multimodal Index68.8%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Vibe Code Bench 1-10013.8%
Vals AIClaude Sonnet 5 Vibe Code Bench v1.181.3%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet versions

Available through EU in-region routing

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).

Providers in Europe
Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex
Prices in Europe
  • Amazon Bedrock: $2.20/M tokens input, $11/M tokens output
  • Google Vertex: $2.20/M tokens input, $11/M tokens output
Base URL
https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1
Plan
Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing

Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs

Documentation

Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 on OpenRouter.

  • Claude 5 Sonnet Migration GuideCookbook

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Throughput
105tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency
0.48s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-BenchAmazon Bedrock (US)89.2%77.3%Azure (US)90.1%75.6%Amazon Bedrock88.4%76.6%Google Vertex89.0%75.7%Anthropic89.0%75.4%Azure89.0%75.3%auto-routing89.0%74.7%Google Vertex (US)88.4%74.9%Google Vertex (EU)89.5%73.8%Amazon Bedrock (EU)89.4%73.8%
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Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
100.00%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
99.92%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.92%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.93%
Without Routing
98.64%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

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4.
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5.
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Rest of OpenRouter
41.9B
Top 5 Apps
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Frequently asked questions

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max, and x-high), a 1M-token context window, and text, image, and file inputs.

The Claude Sonnet 5 documentation on OpenRouter includes the Claude 5 Sonnet Migration Guide cookbook. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.

Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00/M input tokens and $10.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.20/M tokens, Cache Write at $2.50/M tokens, Cache Write (1h) at $4.00/M tokens, and Web Search at $10.00/1K calls.

Claude Sonnet 5 has a 1,000,000 token context window. It supports up to 128,000 completion tokens.

Yes. Claude Sonnet 5 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Claude Sonnet 5 accepts text, images, and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.

Claude Sonnet 5 is served by 5 providers on OpenRouter: Claude Platform on AWS, Azure, Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock, and Anthropic. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

Claude Sonnet 5 was released on June 30, 2026.