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AI models · Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5.5

“High-performance model for coding and agents” Anthropic, in its own words

  • $2 / $10per million tokens in / out, the maker's price
  • 1Mtokens it reads at once
  • 164.4Epoch Capabilities Index, #6 of the models Epoch scores
The facts

Claude Sonnet 5.5 at a glance.

From Anthropic's own pages, read Oct 20, 2026, so company-reported. A token is a word or part of a word. Prices can change; check the maker's page before you build on them.

Made by
AnthropicBased in US
What it is for
“High-performance model for coding and agents”Anthropic pricing page, Oct 20, 2026 · in Anthropic's words
Reads at once
1M tokensIts context window: how much text it can take in one go
Takes in
text, image
Download
No, online only
Price for developers

$2per million tokens in$10per million tokens out

Prompt caching (5-minute TTL): cache read $0.10/MTok, cache write $2.50/MTok. Batch saves 50%. US-only inference 1.1x.

Anthropic pricing page, Oct 20, 2026 · company-reported

Independent tests

Where it ranks.

Its position on each of the 21 tests the models page uses, by testers other than the maker. Epoch AI's and Vectara's scores are shown under their open licenses; for LMArena, Scale and Vals we give the position and link to their own leaderboard. Each list is a snapshot with its date.

All-round
TestRankScore
Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch AI, Oct 20, 2026#6164.4range 161.35 to 168.26
Vals IndexVals AI, Oct 19, 2026#1On Vals AI
Coding
TestRankScore
LMArena WebDevLMArena, Oct 19, 2026#3On LMArena
SWE-Bench ProScale AI, Sep 22, 2026#8On Scale AI
Vibe Code BenchVals AI, Oct 18, 2026#1On Vals AI
LMArena coding chatsLMArena, Oct 15, 2026Not in the top 20
Writing and conversation
TestRankScore
LMArena textLMArena, Oct 15, 2026Not in the top 20
LMArena creative writingLMArena, Oct 15, 2026Not in the top 20
MultiChallengeScale AI, Feb 3, 2026Not in the top 15
Agents and computer use
TestRankScore
LMArena Agent ArenaLMArena, Oct 19, 2026#5On LMArena
Remote Labor IndexScale AINot in the top 16
Terminal-Bench 4.0Vals AI, Oct 19, 2026#2On Vals AI
CUA-bench (games)Vals AI, Oct 13, 2026Not in the top 9
Math and science
TestRankScore
LMArena mathLMArena, Oct 15, 2026#15On LMArena
Humanity's Last ExamScale AI#6On Scale AI
ProofBenchVals AI, Oct 12, 2026#1On Vals AI
Images and documents
TestRankScore
LMArena visionLMArena, Oct 19, 2026Not in the top 20
LMArena documentsLMArena, Sep 13, 2026Not in the top 20
More exam questions
TestRankScore
GPQA DiamondVals AI, Sep 1, 2026Not in the top 20
MMMU ProVals AI, Sep 1, 2026Not in the top 20
Sticking to the facts
TestRankScore
Vectara hallucination testVectara, Oct 16, 2026Not in our copy of the list

“Not in the top” means it isn't among the models in our copy of that list, which runs to the position shown; it may not have been tested. Vectara's test ranks by how rarely a model adds facts, so lower is better. Positions can be shared when scores tie. Epoch's range is its margin of uncertainty. Epoch AI and Vectara data: CC BY 4.0 and Apache-2.0.

For people, not developers

What Claude costs.

Anthropic's chat app, priced by the month in US dollars on its own pages. Which plans include Claude Sonnet 5.5 is on Anthropic's pages.

Every chat app's plans
Claude
PlanA month
FreeFree
Pro$20
Maxfrom $100
Team (Standard seat)$25 a seat
Team (Premium seat)$125 a seat
Enterprise$20 a seat + usage

Anthropic pricing page, Oct 20, 2026 · company-reported

Our note: Product page: 'Anyone can chat with Claude using Sonnet 5.5 on Claude.ai'. Context 1M tokens, max output 128K tokens.