Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5
Made by Anthropic. Released 2026-06-30. Accessibility not recorded. Cheapest standard rate we hold: $10 per million output tokens, no context split.
What it costs
| Tier | Kind | In | Out | Cached in | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| batch | text | $1 | $5 | — | seller |
| standard | text | $2 | $10 | $0.20 | seller |
per million tokens, US dollars. * marks a rate from a single registry or two that disagree — the best available number rather than a confirmed one. Every other row is confirmed against a seller or a licensed index.
What it scores, by house
| Benchmark | House | Score | Evaluated | Scaffold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| chess puzzles | Epoch AI | 0.3±0.05 | 2026-06-30 | xhigh |
| chess puzzles | Epoch AI | 0.2±0.04 | 2026-06-30 | max |
| frontiermath tier 4 v2 | Epoch AI | 0.3±0.07 | 2026-06-30 | max |
| frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2 | Epoch AI | 0.7±0.03 | 2026-06-30 | max |
| gpqa diamond | Epoch AI | 0.8±0.03 | 2026-08-06 | max |
| gpqa diamond | Epoch AI | 0.9±0.02 | 2026-07-01 | xhigh |
| mystery game puzzles | Epoch AI | 0.2±0.04 | 2026-08-06 | — |
| mystery game puzzles | Epoch AI | 0.3±0.05 | 2026-07-28 | max |
| otis mock aime 2024 2025near its ceiling | Epoch AI | 0.8±0.06 | 2026-08-06 | max |
| otis mock aime 2024 2025near its ceiling | Epoch AI | 0.9±0.02 | 2026-07-01 | xhigh |
| simpleqa verified | Epoch AI | 0.3±0.01 | 2026-08-27 | xhigh |
| simpleqa verified | Epoch AI | 0.3±0.01 | 2026-08-27 | max |
| ale bench | collected by Epoch AI | 1463 | — | high |
| apex agents | collected by Epoch AI | 0.5 | — | unknown |
| blueprint bench 2 | collected by Epoch AI | 0.2 | — | unknown |
| btf3 | collected by Epoch AI | 0.2 | — | FutureSearch agent |
| critpt | collected by Epoch AI | 0.0 | — | high |
| critpt | collected by Epoch AI | 0.2 | — | max |
| cursorbench | collected by Epoch AI | 0.6 | — | xhigh |
| cursorbench | collected by Epoch AI | 0.5 | — | medium |
| cursorbench | collected by Epoch AI | 0.6 | — | max |
| cursorbench | collected by Epoch AI | 0.5 | — | low |
| cursorbench | collected by Epoch AI | 0.6 | — | high |
| deepswe | collected by Epoch AI | 0.5 | — | mini-swe-agent |
| dtbenchnear its ceiling | collected by Epoch AI | 0.9 | — | max |
| forecastbench | collected by Epoch AI | 59.9 | — | 16K |
| frontiercode | collected by Epoch AI | 0.4 | — | claude-code |
| gbaeval | collected by Epoch AI | 0.7 | — | unknown |
| gso | collected by Epoch AI | 0.4 | — | OpenHands |
| lmca | collected by Epoch AI | 49.3 | — | max |
| proofbench | collected by Epoch AI | 0.8 | — | max |
| scicode | collected by Epoch AI | 0.5 | — | max |
| scicode | collected by Epoch AI | 0.5 | — | high |
| simplebench | collected by Epoch AI | 0.6 | — | unknown |
| surface evolver bench | collected by Epoch AI | 0.6 | — | medium |
| vending bench 2 | collected by Epoch AI | 6378 | — | unknown |
| webdev arena | collected by Epoch AI | 1539 | — | high |
| weirdml | collected by Epoch AI | 0.7 | — | high |
These scores are not comparable between houses and are not added up. A score is dated by when it was evaluated, not when the model was released, and a score without its scaffold is not a measurement — which is why both are printed.
What retires, and when
- deprecation — 2027-06-30 (Active)
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