Sonnet 5
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Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's high-performance workhorse for coding and agentic tasks. It delivers near-Opus quality at significantly lower cost, making it the practical choice for most production applications. Introductory pricing through August 2026.
Key Strengths
- Excellent coding at a great price
- Fast and reliable agent operations
- Strong reasoning for complex tasks
- Ideal daily driver for developers
Best Use Cases
Pricing Details
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Input (per 1M tokens) | $2.00 |
| Output (per 1M tokens) | $10.00 |
| Context window | 200K tokens |
| Provider | Anthropic |
| Architecture | Optimized Anthropic transformer, 200K context, balanced for coding performance and cost |
High-perf coding & agents. $3/$15 from Sep 2026
Benchmark Performance
Source: Artificial Analysis (independent benchmarking). Updated 2026-08-08.
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Pricing data is sourced from official API documentation and updated weekly. Actual costs may vary based on prompt caching, batch processing, service tiers, and regional pricing. Inblix is not affiliated with Anthropic.