Author's Description
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with improvements across system design, code security, and specification adherence. The model is designed for extended autonomous operation, maintaining task continuity across sessions and providing fact-based progress tracking. Sonnet 4.5 also introduces stronger agentic capabilities, including improved tool orchestration, speculative parallel execution, and more efficient context and memory management. With enhanced context tracking and awareness of token usage across tool calls, it is particularly well-suited for multi-context and long-running workflows. Use cases span software engineering, cybersecurity, financial analysis, research agents, and other domains requiring sustained reasoning and tool use.
Key Specifications
Supported Parameters
This model supports the following parameters:
Features
This model supports the following features:
Performance Summary
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, created on September 29, 2025, demonstrates a strong performance profile, particularly excelling in reliability with a 100% success rate across all benchmarks. While its speed performance is moderate, ranking in the 33rd percentile, its pricing tends to be at a premium level, positioned in the 11th percentile. The model exhibits exceptional accuracy in critical areas. It achieved perfect scores in Hallucinations (100%), General Knowledge (100%), and Ethics (100%), often being the most accurate model at its price point and speed for these categories. Sonnet 4.5 also shows state-of-the-art capabilities in Coding (95.0% accuracy, 94th percentile) and strong performance in Mathematics (94.0% accuracy, 86th percentile). Its agentic capabilities are further highlighted by solid results in Instruction Following (67.7% accuracy, 77th percentile) and Reasoning (88.0% accuracy, 77th percentile). Email Classification is also robust at 99.0% accuracy. The model's design for extended autonomous operation, improved tool orchestration, and efficient context management positions it well for complex, long-running workflows in domains like software engineering and financial analysis.
Model Pricing
Current Pricing
| Feature | Price (per 1M tokens) |
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| Prompt | $3 |
| Completion | $15 |
| Input Cache Read | $0.3 |
| Input Cache Write | $3.75 |
Price History
Available Endpoints
| Provider | Endpoint Name | Context Length | Pricing (Input) | Pricing (Output) |
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Anthropic
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Anthropic | anthropic/claude-4.5-sonnet-20250929 | 1M | $3 / 1M tokens | $15 / 1M tokens |
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Google
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Google | anthropic/claude-4.5-sonnet-20250929 | 1M | $3 / 1M tokens | $15 / 1M tokens |
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Amazon Bedrock
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Amazon Bedrock | anthropic/claude-4.5-sonnet-20250929 | 1M | $3 / 1M tokens | $15 / 1M tokens |
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Google
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Google | anthropic/claude-4.5-sonnet-20250929 | 1M | $3 / 1M tokens | $15 / 1M tokens |
Benchmark Results
| Benchmark | Category | Reasoning | Strategy | Free | Executions | Accuracy | Cost | Duration |
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| Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 | Oct 15, 2025 | — | 200K |
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★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 Unavailable | Oct 14, 2025 | — | 200K |
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| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1 | Aug 05, 2025 | — | 200K |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | +$$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 | May 22, 2025 | — | 200K |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | +$$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 | May 22, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Feb 24, 2025 | — | 200K |
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★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku | Nov 03, 2024 | — | 200K |
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★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22) | Nov 03, 2024 | — | 200K |
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★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Oct 21, 2024 | ~400B | 200K |
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★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) | Jun 19, 2024 | ~400B | 200K |
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★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku | Mar 12, 2024 | ~20B | 200K |
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★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude 3 Sonnet Unavailable | Mar 04, 2024 | ~200B | 200K |
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★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude 3 Opus | Mar 04, 2024 | ~2T | 200K |
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★★★ | ★★★★ | +$$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude v2 Unavailable | Nov 21, 2023 | 137B | 200K |
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★★ | ★★★★ | +$$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude v2.1 Unavailable | Nov 21, 2023 | 137B | 200K |
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★★ | ★★★★ | +$$$$$ |
| Anthropic: Claude v2.0 Unavailable | Jul 27, 2023 | 137B | 100K |
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★★★ | ★★★★ | +$$$$$ |