Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5

FrontierProprietaryReasoningProprietary
Input Price
$2.00
/M tokens
Output Price
$10.00
/M tokens
Intelligence
55
/100
Arena Rank
#45
Overall
Context
1M
tokens

One9Founders Verdictgood

The Claude workhorse for 2026. Intelligence 55 at $2/$10 — a third of Opus 5 — with 1M context. Default production Claude for most startups.

Best Claude for day-to-day product work.

Best For

  • production chat
  • coding copilots
  • document workflows

Not Great For

  • absolute frontier reasoning
  • ultra-cheap batch jobs

Startup Recommendation

Default Claude SKU for most Indian series-A stacks.

Pricing Details

Input
$2.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$10.00
per 1M tokens
Cached Input
$0.20
per 1M tokens
Batch Input
$1.00
per 1M tokens

Capabilities

Function Calling
Structured Output
Vision
-Web Search
-Code Execution
-MCP
Audio Input
Video Input
Reasoning
Streaming
-Batch API
-Computer Use

Chatbot Arena Rankings

Overall
#45

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type II
GDPR
HIPAA
Enterprise SSO
Audit Logs

Training data policy: API data not used for training by default (opt-out / ZDR available)

DPDP Act (India): No India-resident inference by default. Use DPA + region controls.

Data residency: US, EU

India Availability

API available globally