Home / Alternatives / Claude Sonnet 5 An Alternatives to Claude Sonnet 5 For pulling data out of documents, Claude Sonnet 5 scores 56 and costs $10.00 per 1,000 documents. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.
Overall 53 $4.00 / 1M
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Alternatives to Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek V4 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 4 Argon Gemma 4 31B IT GLM-5.3 GLM-5.3-Flash GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Terra GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Luna GPT-6 Sol GPT-6.1 Sol Grok 4.7 Kimi K3 MiniMax-M3 Mistral Large 4 Mistral Medium 3.5 Muse Spark 1.3 Muse Wonder Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Nova 2 Lite Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.8 Max 99% similar OA GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI Overall 60+7
Blended / 1M $4.50+13%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-5.6 Terra vs Claude Sonnet 5 Overall +7 Coding −1 Writing ±0 Support +1 Value +7 Context 1.1M Back
98% similar OA GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI Overall 74+21
Blended / 1M $4.00±0%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-6.1 Sol vs Claude Sonnet 5 Overall +21 Coding +23 Writing +5 Support +2 Value +21 Context 1.1M Back
93% similar Open weights DS DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek Overall 53±0
Blended / 1M $1.98−50%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Sonnet 5 Overall ±0 Coding +1 Writing +8 Support +3 Value +4 Context 1M Back
88% similar An Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic Overall 79+26
Blended / 1M $4.00±0%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Claude Sonnet 5 Overall +26 Coding +32 Writing +21 Support +13 Value +26 Context 1M Back
86% similar OA GPT-6 Astra OpenAI Overall 74+21
Blended / 1M $20.00+400%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Sonnet 5 Overall +21 Coding +27 Writing +2 Support ±0 Value +13 Context 1.1M Back
85% similar Open weights Z GLM-5.3 Z.ai Overall 61+8
Blended / 1M $2.15−46%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GLM-5.3 vs Claude Sonnet 5 Overall +8 Coding +13 Writing +17 Support +11 Value +11 Context 1M Back
85% similar OA GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI Overall 68+15
Blended / 1M $8.00+100%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Sonnet 5 Overall +15 Coding +12 Writing +14 Support +10 Value +11 Context 1.1M Back
85% similar Mi Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI Overall 37−16
Blended / 1M $2.07−48%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Mistral Large 4 vs Claude Sonnet 5 Overall −16 Coding ±0 Writing −19 Support −10 Value −13 Context 1M Back
83% similar Qw Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen) Overall 66+13
Blended / 1M $3.00−25%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Qwen3.8 Max vs Claude Sonnet 5 Overall +13 Coding +20 Writing +22 Support +16 Value +15 Context 1M Back
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