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| Attribute | Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic |
|---|---|
| Summary | A high-performance Claude model that balances frontier coding and agent capability with production-friendly cost. |
| Best for | Coding assistants, enterprise agents, analysis, professional applications |
| Watch out for | Less capable than Opus on some extreme tasks; launch pricing is temporary. |
| Family | Claude 5 |
| Type | Reasoning LLM |
| Status | GA |
| Released | 2026-06-30 |
| Context window | 1M |
| Max output | 128K |
| Inputs | Text, image |
| Outputs | Text |
| Reasoning | Yes — adaptive |
| Tool calling | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes |
| API available | Yes |
| Open weights | No |
| Self-hostable | No |
| License | Proprietary |
| Price | $3 input / $15 output per 1M tokens; temporary launch discount |