Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5: Near Opus 4.8 Performance at a Fraction of the Price
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-07-06
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, which reportedly delivers performance approaching the flagship Opus 4.8 but at a significantly lower price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. The new model supports a massive 1 million token context window and enables thinking mode by default, making it highly advantageous for complex reasoning tasks and offering a substantial boost in overall cost-effectiveness.
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