Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5 launch post cover

Cost/1M tokens

input
$2.00
cached
$0.20
output
$10.00
cache write
$2.50
Context
1Mtokens
Released
4mo ago

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Arena leaderboards and other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

How it ranks

Against its predecessor, similarly priced models and the models ranked around it.

DeepSWE 1.1

Best pass@1 per model · Higher is better

#18 of 28

Arena Text

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #60

  1. 1526
    Gemini 4 CarbonSimilar price
  2. 1487
    Kimi K3Similar price
  3. 1482
    GPT-6.1 SolSimilar price
  4. 1472
  5. 1465
    GLM 5.1Nearby rank
  6. 1464
  7. 1461
    Claude Sonnet 5
  8. 1461
    Kimi K2.6Nearby rank
  9. 1460
  10. 1354
    Command ASimilar price

-11 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 (predecessor) · Ahead of 1 of 4 similarly priced models

Arena WebDev

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #54

  1. 1768
    Gemini 4 CarbonSimilar price
  2. 1743
    GPT-6.1 SolSimilar price
  3. 1676
    Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Similar price
  4. 1658
    Kimi K3Similar price
  5. 1547
    Claude Opus 4.6Nearby rank
  6. 1541
    Muse Spark 1.1Nearby rank
  7. 1539
    Claude Sonnet 5
  8. 1538
    Gemini 3.6 FlashNearby rank
  9. 1534
    Muse Spark 1.2Nearby rank
  10. 1522

+17 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 (predecessor) · Ahead of 0 of 4 similarly priced models

Arena Vision

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #45

  1. 1293
    GPT-6.1 SolSimilar price
  2. 1280
    Grok 4.5Similar price
  3. 1280
  4. 1275
  5. 1263
  6. 1262
    Qwen3.7 PlusNearby rank
  7. 1261
    Claude Sonnet 5
  8. 1258
    GPT-6 SolNearby rank
  9. 1256
    Seed 2.0 ProNearby rank
  10. 1199
    Mistral Medium 3.5Similar price

-14 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 (predecessor) · Ahead of 1 of 4 similarly priced models

Arena Search

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Not ranked on Arena Search yet

Arena Document

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #20

  1. 1480
    Muse Spark 1.1Similar price
  2. 1478
  3. 1474
    GPT-5.6 TerraSimilar price
  4. 1471
    GPT-5.4Nearby rank
  5. 1469
    Gemini 3.8 FlashNearby rank
  6. 1469
    Claude Sonnet 5
  7. 1468
    Gemini 3.7 FlashNearby rank
  8. 1467
    Claude Opus 4.5Nearby rank
  9. 1466
    Grok 4.5Similar price
  10. 1459

Level with Claude Sonnet 4.6 (predecessor, overlapping 95% CIs) · Ahead of 0 of 4 similarly priced models

Agent Arena

Best IPS score per model · Higher is better

Arena #23

  1. +0.170
    Gemini 4 CarbonSimilar price
  2. +0.125
    GPT-6.1 SolSimilar price
  3. +0.026
    Grok 4.7Similar price
  4. +0.022
    Muse Spark 1.3Nearby rank
  5. +0.020
  6. +0.020
    Claude Sonnet 5
  7. +0.018
    Muse WonderNearby rank
  8. +0.017
    Muse EmberNearby rank
  9. +0.006
    Kimi K3Similar price

Ahead of 0 of 4 similarly priced models

FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#35 of 72

  1. 100.0%
    GPT-6.1 SolSimilar price
  2. 95.1%
    Gemini 4 CarbonSimilar price
  3. 39.0%
    Kimi K3Similar price
  4. 34.1%
    Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Similar price
  5. 31.7%
    Grok 4.6Nearby rank
  6. 31.7%
    GPT-5.2Nearby rank
  7. 29.3%
    Claude Sonnet 5
  8. 29.3%
    GLM 5.2Nearby rank
  9. 29.3%
    GLM 5.3Nearby rank
  10. 2.4%
    Claude Sonnet 4.5Earlier version

+26.8 pts vs Claude Sonnet 4.5 (earlier version) · Ahead of 0 of 4 similarly priced models

FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#36 of 87

  1. 93.7%
    GPT-6.1 SolSimilar price
  2. 90.5%
    Gemini 4 CarbonSimilar price
  3. 72.2%
    Kimi K3Similar price
  4. 66.0%
    Claude Opus 4.6Nearby rank
  5. 66.0%
    Grok 4.6Similar price
  6. 65.6%
    Claude Sonnet 5
  7. 65.6%
  8. 64.6%
  9. 23.9%
    Claude Sonnet 4.5Earlier version

+41.8 pts vs Claude Sonnet 4.5 (earlier version) · Ahead of 0 of 4 similarly priced models

GPQA diamond

Best score per model · Higher is better

#40 of 161

  1. 96.5%
    Gemini 4 CarbonSimilar price
  2. 95.4%
    GPT-6.1 SolSimilar price
  3. 94.0%
    Grok 4.6Similar price
  4. 93.1%
    Kimi K3Similar price
  5. 90.6%
    Claude Opus 5.5Nearby rank
  6. 90.5%
    Claude Opus 4.6Nearby rank
  7. 90.5%
    Claude Sonnet 5
  8. 90.5%
    GPT-6 LunaNearby rank
  9. 90.2%
    Claude Opus 4.7Nearby rank
  10. 87.4%

+3.2 pts vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 (predecessor) · Ahead of 0 of 4 similarly priced models

OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025

Best score per model · Higher is better

#42 of 158

  1. 100.0%
    Gemini 4 ArgonSimilar price
  2. 100.0%
    GPT-6 SolSimilar price
  3. 100.0%
    Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Similar price
  4. 97.2%
    Kimi K3Similar price
  5. 95.6%
    Kimi K2.7 CodeNearby rank
  6. 95.6%
    Qwen3.7 MaxNearby rank
  7. 94.7%
    Claude Sonnet 5
  8. 94.4%
    Claude Opus 4.6Nearby rank
  9. 94.4%
  10. 85.8%

+8.9 pts vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 (predecessor) · Ahead of 0 of 4 similarly priced models

SimpleQA Verified

Best score per model · Higher is better

#61 of 87

  1. 77.7%
    Gemini 4 CarbonSimilar price
  2. 73.9%
    GPT-6.1 SolSimilar price
  3. 56.0%
    Grok 4.7Similar price
  4. 50.6%
    Kimi K3Similar price
  5. 35.5%
  6. 34.2%
    GLM 5.2Nearby rank
  7. 34.0%
    GLM 5.1Nearby rank
  8. 33.7%
    Claude Sonnet 5
  9. 33.6%
  10. 33.2%
    Grok 4.3Nearby rank

-1.8 pts vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 (predecessor) · Ahead of 0 of 4 similarly priced models

DeepSWE 1.1

Primary coding-agent benchmark · 113 tasks · Data generated 2026-09-22

Official leaderboard
53.8%
pass@1 · highest published configuration
mini-swe-agent · max reasoning
pass@4
78.8%
Average cost / attempt
$26.40
Benchmark runs
4

Score vs cost by reasoning effort

Average cost per attempt (USD) against pass rate

All published configurations

Harness / reasoningpass@1pass@4Cost / attempt
mini-swe-agent · max53.8%78.8%$26.40
mini-swe-agent · xhigh49.7%75.2%$11.89
mini-swe-agent · high48.2%79.6%$7.43
mini-swe-agent · medium39.8%64.6%$4.08
mini-swe-agent · low30.5%57.5%$2.19

pass@1 is the success rate across scored attempts; pass@4 is the share of tasks solved in at least one of four attempts. Costs are reported by DeepSWE for each configuration. These results are not directly comparable to evaluations using different harnesses. Official source JSON.

Reasoning effort

GPQA diamond

Score by reasoning effort · Higher is better

OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025

Score by reasoning effort · Higher is better

SimpleQA Verified

Score by reasoning effort · Higher is better

All published scores

Benchmark compilation: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (CC BY attribution). Scores are converted to percentages and model names matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog. Individual evaluations are credited to their original sources. External results may carry separate licences and evaluation configurations; do not interpret scores from different harnesses as directly comparable.

Arena ratings: Arena (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), licensed CC BY 4.0. Ratings come from pairwise human votes and are only comparable within one leaderboard; the interval is Arena's 95% confidence interval. Model names are matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog.

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