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Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5, released on 30 June 2026, is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model. It can make plans, use browsers and terminals, and run autonomously, at an introductory price of $2 and $10 per million tokens.

Status AvailableModality Text, ImageContext (K tokens) 1000 Era Generative AI for everyone

License
Proprietary
Access
API, App, Enterprise
Release date
Developer
Anthropic

What it is

Claude Sonnet 5 is a large language model from Anthropic, released on 30 June 2026 with the API ID claude-sonnet-5. Anthropic called it its most agentic Sonnet model: it can make plans, use browsers and terminals, and run autonomously. [1]

Background

Sonnet 5 followed the earlier Sonnet models in the Claude line and was positioned by Anthropic as a model that came close to Claude Opus 4.8 in performance at lower prices. [1] Its successor, Claude Sonnet 5.5, was released on 28 September 2026. [3]

Main features

Price. Sonnet 5 launched at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. On 10 August 2026 Anthropic made that price the standard one, cancelling a planned rise to $3 and $15 that had been scheduled for 1 September. [1][2]

Performance and effort. Anthropic said Sonnet 5 came close to Opus 4.8 at lower prices, and that it could match Opus 4.8 on some tasks when run at higher effort. The model supports several effort levels, including xhigh. [1]

Tokenizer. Sonnet 5 uses the updated tokenizer introduced with Claude Opus 4.7. For the same input it produces roughly 1.0 to 1.35 times as many tokens, which affects how much a given request costs. [1]

Safety profile. Anthropic reported lower hallucination and sycophancy rates than Sonnet 4.6, and better resistance to prompt injection, a technique in which hidden instructions in content try to hijack a model. The company also reported a higher rate of misaligned behaviour than Opus 4.8 and Mythos Preview. [1] Its cyber capabilities were substantially weaker than those of Opus 4.8 and Mythos 5. In a Firefox exploit evaluation it never produced a full working exploit, and its cyber safeguards are on by default. [1]

Position in the timeline

Sonnet 5 became the default model for Free and Pro users, and rate limits were raised across Claude Chat, Cowork, Claude Code and the Claude Platform. [1]

Training data ran to January 2026, according to Wikipedia. [4] Sonnet 5 was succeeded by Claude Sonnet 5.5 on 28 September 2026, and its retirement is not scheduled before 30 June 2027. [3]

CapabilitiesLarge language modelsCodeAgents & tool use

ApplicationsConsumer apps

Version history

20
  1. 2023
    • Mar 14, 2023 Claude (March 2023)

      Claude is the AI assistant Anthropic announced on 14 March 2023, its first publicly available assistant. It was built around training AI to be helpful, honest and harmless, and it started the Claude model line.

    • Jul 11, 2023 Claude 2

      Claude 2 is the second major version of Anthropic's assistant model, released on 11 July 2023 with better performance and longer responses. It was the first Claude model open to the general public.

    • Nov 21, 2023 Claude 2.1

      Claude 2.1, released on 21 November 2023, doubled the context window to 200,000 tokens and cut false statements by half compared with Claude 2.0. It added tool use and system prompts.

  2. 2024
    • Mar 4, 2024 Claude 3 Opus

      Claude 3 Opus, announced on 4 March 2024, was the most capable model in the Claude 3 family. It added vision and launched with a 200K-token context window and a Needle In A Haystack recall above 99%.

    • Mar 4, 2024 Claude 3 Sonnet

      Claude 3 Sonnet was the middle model of Anthropic's Claude 3 family, announced on 4 March 2024. It powered the free tier of claude.ai, offered a 200K-token context window, and was retired on 21 July 2025.

    • Jun 20, 2024 Claude 3.5 Sonnet

      Claude 3.5 Sonnet, released on 20 June 2024, was the first model of the Claude 3.5 family. It ran twice as fast as Claude 3 Opus at the mid-tier price and powered the new Artifacts and Projects features.

    • Oct 22, 2024 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024 upgrade)

      The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, announced on 22 October 2024, raised coding and agentic scores and introduced computer use in public beta, the first such offer from a frontier AI model.

  3. 2025
    • Feb 24, 2025 Claude 3.7 Sonnet

      Claude 3.7 Sonnet, released on 24 February 2025, was described by Anthropic as the first hybrid reasoning model on the market, able to answer quickly or think step by step at length. It launched with Claude Code.

    • May 22, 2025 Claude 4 (Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4)

      Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, announced on 22 May 2025, were hybrid models with extended thinking. Anthropic called Opus 4 the best coding model in the world, and Claude Code became generally available the same day.

    • Aug 5, 2025 Claude Opus 4.1

      Claude Opus 4.1, released on 5 August 2025, upgraded Claude Opus 4 for agentic tasks, real-world coding and reasoning, at the same price. Anthropic later succeeded it with Claude Opus 4.5.

    • Sep 29, 2025 Claude Sonnet 4.5

      Claude Sonnet 4.5, released on 29 September 2025, was a drop-in replacement for Sonnet 4 at the same price. Anthropic reported that it could stay focused on complex tasks for more than 30 hours.

    • Nov 24, 2025 Claude Opus 4.5

      Claude Opus 4.5, released on 24 November 2025, cost a third as much as Opus 4.1 per token and introduced an effort parameter that lets developers trade capability for time and cost. Claude Opus 4.6 succeeded it.

  4. 2026
    • Feb 5, 2026 Claude Opus 4.6

      Released on 5 February 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 was an upgrade to Anthropic's smartest model. It was the first Opus-class model with a 1M-token context window, in beta at launch, and it introduced agent teams in Claude Code.

    • Feb 17, 2026 Claude Sonnet 4.6

      Released on 17 February 2026 with a 1M-token context window in beta, Claude Sonnet 4.6 kept the price of Sonnet 4.5 and became the default model for Free and Pro users on claude.ai.

    • Apr 16, 2026 Claude Opus 4.7

      Released on 16 April 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.6, Claude Opus 4.7 added an xhigh effort level and accepted much larger images. It was the first model to test automatic blocking of high-risk cybersecurity requests.

    • May 28, 2026 Claude Opus 4.8

      Released on 28 May 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.8 added a fast mode at 2.5 times the speed, with fewer unnoticed flaws in its own code. Anthropic called it a modest but tangible improvement.

    • Jun 30, 2026 Claude Sonnet 5 · This page

      Claude Sonnet 5, released on 30 June 2026, is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model. It can make plans, use browsers and terminals, and run autonomously, at an introductory price of $2 and $10 per million tokens.

    • Jul 24, 2026 Claude Opus 5

      Claude Opus 5, released on 24 July 2026 at $5 and $25 per million tokens, is Anthropic's most aligned model to date and its most capable generally available model for scientific research.

    • Sep 22, 2026 Claude Opus 5.5

      Claude Opus 5.5, released on 22 September 2026, is the first model in Anthropic's Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic said it performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work, at about 40% lower cost than Opus 5.

    • Sep 28, 2026 Claude Sonnet 5.5

      Claude Sonnet 5.5, released on 28 September 2026, is the second model in the Claude 5.5 family and Anthropic's fastest Sonnet to date. It costs $2 and $10 per million tokens, with cache reads halved in October 2026.

20261

  1. ReleaseAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5

    On 30 June 2026 Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic Sonnet model, at an introductory $2 and $10 per million tokens. On 10 August that price became permanent.

Developed by1

Anthropic

Succeeded by1

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Successor of1

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Powers3

Claude apps (claude.ai)Claude CodeClaude Cowork

Uses3

Chain of thought and reasoning modelsTransformerConstitutional AI

Notes and sources

  1. Introducing Claude Sonnet 5https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
  2. Pricinghttps://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing
  3. Model deprecationshttps://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-deprecations
  4. Claude (language model)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

Cite this page: Claude Sonnet 5. TellWorld, https://www.tellworld.net/models/claude-sonnet-5. Updated 2026-11-08