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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4

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Claude Sonnet 4 significantly enhances the capabilities of its predecessor, Sonnet 3.7, excelling in both coding and reasoning tasks with improved precision and controllability. Achieving state-of-the-art performance on SWE-bench (72.7%), Sonnet 4 balances capability and computational efficiency, making it suitable for a broad range of applications from routine coding tasks to complex software development projects. Key enhancements include improved autonomous codebase navigation, reduced error rates in agent-driven workflows, and increased reliability in following intricate instructions. Sonnet 4 is optimized for practical everyday use, providing advanced reasoning capabilities while maintaining efficiency and responsiveness in diverse internal and external scenarios.

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Modalities
In / Out Price
$3 / $15per 1M
Context
200K
Released
May 22, 2025
Knowledge Cutoff
Jan 2025
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Providers

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Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 (Artificial Analysis and Design Arena)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond68.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Non-reasoning) HLE4.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Non-reasoning) IFBench45.4%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom52.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR44.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Non-reasoning) CritPt1.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard27.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Accuracy22.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate59.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) Coding Index37.6
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) GPQA Diamond77.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) HLE10.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) IFBench54.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom64.6%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) AA-LCR70.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) GDPval-AA9.0%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) CritPt0.3%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard31.1%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) AA-Omniscience Accuracy22.7%
Artificial AnalysisClaude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate70.9%
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 4 (Thinking) Models Arena 3D Elo1144
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 4 (Thinking) Models Arena Code Categories Elo1145
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 4 (Thinking) Models Arena Data Visualization Elo1167
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 4 (Thinking) Models Arena Game Development Elo1151
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 4 (Thinking) Models Arena SVG Elo1078
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 4 (Thinking) Models Arena UI Component Elo1135
Design ArenaClaude Sonnet 4 (Thinking) Models Arena Website Elo1147

Apps

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Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

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Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 4 significantly enhances the capabilities of its predecessor, Sonnet 3.7, excelling in both coding and reasoning tasks with improved precision and controllability. Achieving state-of-the-art performance on SWE-bench (72.7%), Sonnet 4 balances capability and computational efficiency, making it suitable for a broad range of applications from routine coding tasks to complex software...

Claude Sonnet 4 costs $3.00/M input tokens and $15.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.30/M tokens, Cache Write at $3.75/M tokens, and Cache Write (1h) at $6.00/M tokens.

Claude Sonnet 4 has a 200,000 token context window. It supports up to 64,000 completion tokens.

Yes. Claude Sonnet 4 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It does not support response_format, so JSON output is not enforced.

Claude Sonnet 4 accepts images, text, and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.

Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1 and 11 more are other text models from Anthropic.

Claude Sonnet 4 was released on May 22, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is January 31, 2025.

More models from Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, succeeding Claude Sonnet 5 as a direct upgrade. It is especially strong at building features, fixing bugs, and producing polished documents, slides, and spreadsheets, and it writes and communicates more clearly than its predecessor.

Thinking is always on, so effort is the main lever for trading off depth, latency, and cost, and lower effort settings keep it responsive for everyday agentic loops.

Text1M context$2 / $10
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, succeeding Claude Sonnet 5 as a direct upgrade. It is especially strong at building features, fixing bugs, and producing polished documents, slides, and spreadsheets, and it writes and communicates more clearly than its predecessor.

Thinking is always on, so effort is the main lever for trading off depth, latency, and cost, and lower effort settings keep it responsive for everyday agentic loops.

Text1M context$1 / $5
Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Claude Opus 5. It is particularly strong at multi-step changes in large codebases, code review and bug finding, financial and scientific analysis, and reading dense charts, diagrams, and screenshots, and it is more careful than its predecessor about only stating figures and citing sources it can back up.

The model completes comparable tasks in fewer steps and with fewer tokens than Opus 5, and reports on its work in plainer language, with clear updates on what it did, what it found, and what it needs from the user. Thinking is always adaptive, so effort is the main lever for trading off depth, latency, and cost, and lower effort settings remain effective for latency-sensitive workloads.

Text1M context$4 / $20
Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Claude Opus 5. It is particularly strong at multi-step changes in large codebases, code review and bug finding, financial and scientific analysis, and reading dense charts, diagrams, and screenshots, and it is more careful than its predecessor about only stating figures and citing sources it can back up.

The model completes comparable tasks in fewer steps and with fewer tokens than Opus 5, and reports on its work in plainer language, with clear updates on what it did, what it found, and what it needs from the user. Thinking is always adaptive, so effort is the main lever for trading off depth, latency, and cost, and lower effort settings remain effective for latency-sensitive workloads.

Text1M context$2 / $10
Claude Fable 5.1

Claude Fable 5.1 improves on Claude Fable 5 across the board, with the biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agentic workflows, and knowledge work: long code refactors, front-end and visual code generation, and finance and analysis tasks in particular. It also tends to be more concise than Fable 5 in its plans and summaries. We recommend testing it as a direct upgrade wherever you use Fable 5 today, and alongside Opus 5 on reasoning-heavy tasks.

Text1M context$10 / $50
Claude Fable 5.1

Claude Fable 5.1 improves on Claude Fable 5 across the board, with the biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agentic workflows, and knowledge work: long code refactors, front-end and visual code generation, and finance and analysis tasks in particular. It also tends to be more concise than Fable 5 in its plans and summaries. We recommend testing it as a direct upgrade wherever you use Fable 5 today, and alongside Opus 5 on reasoning-heavy tasks.

Text1M context$5 / $25
Claude Opus 5

Fast-mode variant of Opus 5 - identical capabilities with higher output speed at 2x pricing relative to regular Opus 5.

Learn more in Anthropic's docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/fast-mode

Note: As of September 1, 2026, this dedicated fast model is deprecated. Fast mode is now served by the fast service tier endpoint on Claude Opus 5 — request it with service_tier: "fast" or speed: "fast". Requests to this model keep working and are served by the same fast tier capacity, so no action is required, but new integrations should target the regular model. Learn more in our service tier docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/service-tiers

Text1M context
Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis of charts and documents, complex office deliverables, and coordinating parallel subagents.

The model maintains strong instruction following and tool use across extended tasks, while remaining effective at lower effort settings for workloads that prioritize latency and token efficiency.

Text1M context$5 / $25
Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis of charts and documents, complex office deliverables, and coordinating parallel subagents.

The model maintains strong instruction following and tool use across extended tasks, while remaining effective at lower effort settings for workloads that prioritize latency and token efficiency.

Text1M context$2.50 / $12.50
Claude Sonnet 5

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max, and x-high), a 1M-token context window, and text, image, and file inputs. Sonnet 5 uses an updated tokenizer and includes real-time cyber safeguards that block certain high-risk dual-use activities.

Text1M context$2 / $10
Claude Sonnet 5

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max, and x-high), a 1M-token context window, and text, image, and file inputs. Sonnet 5 uses an updated tokenizer and includes real-time cyber safeguards that block certain high-risk dual-use activities.

Text1M context$1 / $5
Claude Fable Latest

This model always redirects to the latest model in the Claude Fable family.

Text1M context
Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5 is a Mythos-class model from Anthropic, built for autonomous knowledge work and coding. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and a 1M-token context window. It is suited for long-running, complex, and asynchronous tasks that previously required frequent human check-ins.

It is particularly strong at end-to-end work that would otherwise take a person hours, days, or weeks - taking on problems that are long-running, ambiguous, or highly multi-step. It executes well-scoped tasks with few mistakes, automatically self-correcting through verification loops, and ships with robust safeguards.

Text1M context$10 / $50
Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5 is a Mythos-class model from Anthropic, built for autonomous knowledge work and coding. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and a 1M-token context window. It is suited for long-running, complex, and asynchronous tasks that previously required frequent human check-ins.

It is particularly strong at end-to-end work that would otherwise take a person hours, days, or weeks - taking on problems that are long-running, ambiguous, or highly multi-step. It executes well-scoped tasks with few mistakes, automatically self-correcting through verification loops, and ships with robust safeguards.

Text1M context$5 / $25
Claude Opus 4.8

Fast-mode variant of Opus 4.8 - identical capabilities with higher output speed at 2x pricing relative to regular Opus 4.8.

Learn more in Anthropic's docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/fast-mode

Note: As of September 1, 2026, this dedicated fast model is deprecated. Fast mode is now served by the fast service tier endpoint on Claude Opus 4.8 — request it with service_tier: "fast" or speed: "fast". Requests to this model keep working and are served by the same fast tier capacity, so no action is required, but new integrations should target the regular model. Learn more in our service tier docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/service-tiers

Text1M context
Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model in the Opus family. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and a 1M-token context window. It is suited for highly autonomous agents, long-horizon agentic work, knowledge work, and memory-driven tasks where coherence over extended sessions matters.

It is particularly strong on multi-step reasoning, complex coding, and end-to-end project orchestration - large codebases, multi-stage debugging, and long-running asynchronous agent pipelines. Beyond coding, it handles knowledge work such as drafting documents, building presentations, and analyzing data, maintaining quality across very long outputs.

Text1M context$5 / $25
Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model in the Opus family. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and a 1M-token context window. It is suited for highly autonomous agents, long-horizon agentic work, knowledge work, and memory-driven tasks where coherence over extended sessions matters.

It is particularly strong on multi-step reasoning, complex coding, and end-to-end project orchestration - large codebases, multi-stage debugging, and long-running asynchronous agent pipelines. Beyond coding, it handles knowledge work such as drafting documents, building presentations, and analyzing data, maintaining quality across very long outputs.

Text1M context$2.50 / $12.50
Claude Opus 4.7

Fast-mode variant of Opus 4.7 - identical capabilities with higher output speed at premium 6x pricing.

Learn more in Anthropic's docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/fast-mode

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Claude Haiku Latest

This model always redirects to the latest model in the Claude Haiku family.

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Claude Sonnet Latest

This model always redirects to the latest model in the Claude Sonnet family.

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