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Claude Sonnet 5 anthropic
Release timeline
Stages observed by the nightly radar: announced → API only → weights public → served by third parties. Each entry carries the source it was seen at.
- 2026-06-30 · API only source seeded from the earliest dated observation when first seen · observed 2026-10-07 20:20 UTC
Description
Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max,...
via OpenRouter listing · observed 2026-10-26 07:08 UTC. The listing text is the provider's own description, not an assessment.
Where to run 6 providers · 11 endpoints
Hosted endpoints observed for Claude Sonnet 5, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $2.00/M.
| Provider | Model ref | Context | Quant | $/M in | $/M out | tok/s | TTFT | Tools | Status | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.00 | $10.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| Anthropic openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.00 | $10.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| Azure openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.00 | $10.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| Claude Platform on AWS openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.00 | $10.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| Google openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.00 | $10.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| Amazon Bedrock openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.20 | $11.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| Amazon Bedrock openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.20 | $11.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| Azure openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.20 | $11.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| Google openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.20 | $11.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| Google openrouter | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | unknown | $2.20 | $11.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-26 |
| DeepInfra deepinfra | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | 977K | — | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | — | live | 2026-10-26 |
Third-party providers observed: 1 (DeepInfra). Cache-read price $0.20/M (source, observed 2026-10-26).
Facts
| Context length | 1,000,000 tokens (977K) · OpenRouter listing |
|---|---|
| Modalities | text + image + file → text |
| Max completion tokens | 128,000 |
| Supported parameters | include_reasoning, max_completion_tokens, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity |
| Openness | Closed weights · closed lab |
| Stage | API only |
| Confidence | medium |
| Pricing (USD per M tokens) |
in $2.00 · out $10.00 · cache read $0.20 OpenRouter list price (cheapest live endpoint) · source · observed 2026-10-26 07:08 UTC |
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| Qwen3.5-4B | Qwen | 4.66B | 256K | — | apache-2.0 | vision input |
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | deepseek-ai | 763B | 1M | $0.20 | mit | similar context (1.05M), cheaper input price ($0.2/M vs $2/M), vision input |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | zai-org | 321B | 1M | $0.04 | mit | similar context (1.05M), cheaper input price ($0.0413/M vs $2/M), vision input |
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Sources
- openrouter anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 · observed 2026-10-26 07:08 UTC
- deepinfra anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 · observed 2026-10-26 07:08 UTC
Radar run: 2026-10-26 07:08 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-26 07:08 UTC