Claude Sonnet 5
Released Jun 2026. Proprietary, available through the provider's API.
Claude Sonnet 5 is built by Anthropic and has 22 benchmark results tracked in the public leaderboard. It supports multimodal input, with a context window of 1M tokens. At the blended 8:1 input-to-output rate, it costs $2.89 per million tokens and delivers about 9.4 tokens per second.
Where Claude Sonnet 5 ranks
The chart below ranks every model in the comparison by overall capability, which is the average of a model's scores across the eight workload axes. Claude Sonnet 5 is the red bar. This is the single number to check first: it tells you where the model sits in the current pecking order before you dig into the detail.
Workload strengths
Each row below is the average normalized score across every benchmark tagged with that workload category. A higher number means the model performs better on that kind of task relative to the maximum possible score on those benchmarks. Categories where the model has no published results are shown as n/a.
| Workload | Index (0–1) |
|---|---|
| Reasoning | 68% |
| Coding | 56% |
| Agents | 50% |
| Math | 70% |
| Vision | 67% |
| Long Context | n/a |
| Writing | n/a |
| Knowledge | 74% |
How Claude Sonnet 5 stacks up against every other model
Below is every head-to-head comparison involving Claude Sonnet 5. Each card shows the win/loss tally across all workload axes and headline benchmarks. Tap any matchup for the full breakdown with per-benchmark scores, pricing, and workload recommendations.
Claude Sonnet 5vs GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol leads 11–3
Claude Sonnet 5vs Claude Opus 5
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 7–3
Claude Sonnet 5vs Kimi K3
Kimi K3 leads 10–2
Claude Sonnet 5vs Claude Fable 5
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 5–4
Claude Sonnet 5vs GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra leads 9–5
Claude Sonnet 5vs Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen3.8 Max leads 9–4
Claude Sonnet 5vs Grok 4.5
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 7–3
Claude Sonnet 5vs DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 7–2
Claude Sonnet 5vs GLM-5.2
Even at 5–5
Claude Sonnet 5vs GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol leads 11–3
Claude Sonnet 5vs Claude Opus 5
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 7–3
Claude Sonnet 5vs Kimi K3
Kimi K3 leads 10–2
Claude Sonnet 5vs Claude Fable 5
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 5–4
Claude Sonnet 5vs GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra leads 9–5
Claude Sonnet 5vs Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen3.8 Max leads 9–4
Claude Sonnet 5vs Grok 4.5
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 7–3
Claude Sonnet 5vs DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 7–2
Claude Sonnet 5vs GLM-5.2
Even at 5–5
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