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Claude Sonnet 4.6vsClaude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 5 of 6 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 5 is 1.5x cheaper per token. Both offer a 1M-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 5
Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Cheaper per token
Claude Sonnet 5
1.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100%
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-17
textvision
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-30
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
6 shared · 12 only Claude Sonnet 4.6 · 2 only Claude Sonnet 5| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 5 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 6 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% ↗ | 85.2% ↗ | -5.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| GPQA Diamond | 89.9% ↗ | 90.5% ↗epoch | -0.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 33.2% ↗ | 43.2% ↗ | -10 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 49% ↗ | 57.4% ↗ | -8.4 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 85.8% ↗epoch | 94.7% ↗epoch | -8.9 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 35.5% ↗epoch | 33.7% ↗epoch | +1.8 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4.6 reports · 12 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1458.3 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 58.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA | 1633 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 61.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 89.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 74.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 75.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 75.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 91.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 97.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Claude Sonnet 5 reports · 2 | ||||
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 29.3% ↗epoch | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 65.6% ↗epoch | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 4.6 minus Claude Sonnet 5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 5 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens | Tie |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 128K tokens | Tie |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $10 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.2 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $12 | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-02-17 | 2026-06-30 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 8 | — |
Reliability
Anthropic status
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