Anthropic · text model

Claude Sonnet 5.5

#6 of 31 text models on overall (provisional). $7.00 per 1,000 support replies at list price.

Price checked 25 Oct 2026 via vendor
key_facts.txt
Released
28 Sept 2026
Context window
1M tokens
Longest reply
128K tokens
Open weights
No
Reasoning mode
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Reads
text, image, pdf
Writes
text
Knowledge cutoff
2026-06
scores.txt
Overall79
Writing74
Support69
Coding87
Value69
Provisional, 0 to 100 among the text models we track, from Arena and Epoch AI. How we score.

Prices and where to run it

ProviderRegionInput per 1MOutput per 1MCached inputData retentionChecked
anthropicglobal$2.00$10.00$0.10Not checked25 Oct 2026, vendor
openrouterglobal$2.00$10.00$0.10Not checked25 Oct 2026, OpenRouter

Price history and a CSV download arrive with the open price dataset.

Benchmarks behind the scores

MeasureFigureRun dateSource
Epoch Capabilities Index166.225 Oct 2026Epoch AI
Arena text, coding1510.522 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, creative writing1468.322 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, instruction following1490.522 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, multi-turn1465.322 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, overall1473.122 Oct 2026Arena
Arena WebDev1768.923 Oct 2026Arena
call_it.sh
Call it through OpenRouter
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'
alerts.txt
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