Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Analysis Summary
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #79 of 544 published models on overall intelligence. At $6.00 input and $30.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.
Editorial notes
Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers strong coding capability, vision support, tool use, and function calling with a 200K context window, but its intelligence index reflects an older generation now well behind current Anthropic flagships.
Assessed May 5, 2026
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Performance Profile
New Claude 3.5 Sonnet delivers better-than-Opus capabilities, faster-than-Sonnet speeds, at the same Sonnet prices. Sonnet is particularly good at: - Coding: Scores ~49% on SWE-Bench Verified, higher than the last best score, and without any fancy prompt scaffolding
- Data science: Augments human data science expertise; navigates unstructured data while using multiple tools for insights
- Visual processing: excelling at interpreting charts, graphs, and images, accurately transcribing text to derive insights beyond just the text alone
- Agentic tasks: exceptional tool use, making it great at agentic tasks (i.e. complex, multi-step problem solving tasks that require engaging with other systems) #multimodal
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet
|
| Provider | anthropic |
| Model Family | Claude 3.5 |
| Release Date | October 22, 2024 |
| Context Length | 200,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 8,192 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $6.00 | $0.006000 |
| Output | $30.00 | $0.030000 |
