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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic’s proprietary AI model, released Sep 28, 2026. It costs $2/M input and $10/M output tokens, and handles a 1M-token context window. Its strongest use case is agentic & tools, where it ranks in the 100th percentile of the models Model Beat tracks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, succeeding Claude Sonnet 5 as a direct upgrade.

Context
1M
Input
$2 / 1M
Output
$10 / 1M
Released
Sep 28, 2026
Modalities
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Strongest atAgentic & Tools top 0%Coding top 4%Math top 9%

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where Claude Sonnet 5.5 lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.

91.0
Intelligence Index
Epoch AI
91st percentile of tracked models
96.0
Coding Index
Epoch AI
96th percentile of tracked models
100.0
Agentic Index
Epoch AI
100th percentile of tracked models

Reasoning

2 evals
GPQA Diamond95.6%

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

SimpleQA Verified46.5%

Factual accuracy & hallucination

Coding

1 evals
WebDev Arena1699

Human-rated web development

Math

1 evals
AIME 2024/2025100.0%

Olympiad-qualifier math

Agentic & Tools

1 evals
APEX75.5%

Multi-step agentic tasks

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Frequently asked questions

What is 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.

Who created Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is an AI model developed by Anthropic, part of the Claude family, released Sep 28, 2026.

How much does Claude Sonnet 5.5 cost?

Claude Sonnet 5.5's list price from Anthropic is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

What is Claude Sonnet 5.5's context window?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports a context window of up to 1M tokens.

How does Claude Sonnet 5.5 perform on benchmarks?

On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores 75.5% on APEX, 95.6% on GPQA Diamond, 1699 on WebDev Arena.

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 open source?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a proprietary model (API access), available through its provider's API rather than as a downloadable open-weight model.

Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Oct 1, 2026.