model · Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's balanced tier — most of Opus 4.8's coding, agentic and writing quality at a lower price, which makes it the everyday production workhorse for many teams. It has a 1M-token context window, takes images, and supports prompt caching (cache hits at ~10% of input price) and 50%-off batch processing — both big levers for cutting an SME's bill. Introductory pricing is $2 / $10 per 1M tokens through 31 Aug 2026, then $3 / $15. Closed and cloud-only; for GDPR, route via an EU region of AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex.
What it can help with
- llm
- 1m-token-context
- image-input
- prompt-caching
- batch-discounts
- cloud-deployment
- gdpr-compliance