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Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-tier model, bringing near-Opus intelligence to coding, agentic workflows, and professional knowledge work at Sonnet-level cost. It is a strict improvement over Sonnet 4.6 across the cost-performance curve and serves as the default model for Anthropic's Free and Pro plans.
Document analysis#15Mathematical#41Image understanding#44Software & IT Services#46
AuthorAnthropic
Country🇺🇸 United States
ReleasedJun 30, 2026
Overview
Cost rate
2x
Context
1M
Input
Output
Reasoning
Tool calling
Structured outputs
Pricing/M tokens
Input$2.00
Cached input$0.20
Output$10.00
Context
Context length1,000,000
Max output tokens128,000
Knowledge cutoff-
Performance
Throughput74 tok/s
Latency6.87s
GPT-5.6 Terra is the balanced, everyday tier of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, offering coding, reasoning, and agentic performance competitive with GPT-5.5 at roughly half the cost.
Document analysis#14Mathematical#32Image understanding#37Software & IT Services#41
AuthorOpenAI
Country🇺🇸 United States
ReleasedJul 9, 2026
Overview
Cost rate
2x
Context
1.1M
Input
Output
Reasoning
Tool calling
Structured outputs
Pricing/M tokens
Input$2.00
Cached input$0.20
Output$12.00
Context
Context length1,050,000
Max output tokens128,000
Knowledge cutoff2026-02-16
Performance
Throughput109 tok/s
Latency1.68s
Benchmarks
Head-to-head scores across reasoning, coding, and agentic indices, plus per-domain rankings.
Intelligence
57.6
Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)
56.0
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)
53.4
Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback)
52.7
GPT-6 Astra (Max)
30.1
GPT-5.6 Terra
24.3
Claude Sonnet 5
Coding
81.6
Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback)
78.3
GPT-5.6 Sol (Xhigh)
78.0
Claude Opus 5 (Max)
77.1
GPT-6 Astra (High)
76.7
GPT-5.6 Terra (Max)
71.5
Claude Sonnet 5
Automation & Tool Use
57.9
Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback)
56.5
Claude Opus 5 (Max)
56.0
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
55.5
Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)
43.6
Claude Sonnet 5
30.4
GPT-5.6 Terra
Intelligence, coding & agentic scores from Artificial Analysis.
Software & IT Services
arena.ai1562
Gemini 4 Argon (High)
1540
Claude Opus 4.7 (High)
1539
Claude Fable 5 (High)
1538
Claude Opus 5.5 (High)
1537
Claude Opus 4.6 (High)
1534
Muse Wonder (Max)
1531
Muse Spark 1.2 (xHigh)
1531
Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)
1507
GPT-5.6 Terra
1504
Claude Sonnet 5
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