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Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a foundation model developed by Anthropic. Designed for chat specialization, it supports an extremely extensive context window of 1000K.

Parameters

Undisclosed

Context Window

1000K

License

Proprietary

Release Date

2025-09-30

API Pricing

API pricing for this model is not yet available

Strengths

  • Extremely long 1000K context understanding
  • Advanced conversational chat capability
  • Latest design by Anthropic

Weaknesses

  • Non-open-source license
  • Closed system with private internals
  • Usage restrictions in closed environments

Use Cases

  • Analyzing ultra-large documents
  • Long-context conversational dialogues
  • Building advanced AI chatbots

Deep Analysis

SWE-Bench Verified

77.2%

best at launch (Sept 2025)

GPQA Diamond

83.4%

strong reasoning

OSWorld

61.4%

SOTA computer use at launch

Input Price

$3/1M

same as Sonnet 4

Output Price

$15/1M

same as Sonnet 4

Context Window

200K tokens

1M beta at Tier 4+

Strengths

  • Best coding model at launch (SWE-bench Verified 77.2%)
  • Price parity with Sonnet 4 — pure capability upgrade
  • Outstanding computer use (OSWorld 61.4%, 45% over Sonnet 4)
  • Fast output speed (63 tok/s)

Weaknesses

  • 200K context window (1M in beta only)
  • Superseded by Sonnet 4.6 and 4.8
  • GPQA Diamond (83.4%) trails frontier models (94%+)

Competitor Comparison

ModelArenaSWEGPQAPrice
Claude Sonnet 4.6~149079.6%89.9%$3/$15
GPT-5.4146780.8%94.4%$2.50/$15
Claude Sonnet 4.5~146077.2%83.4%$3/$15

Analysis generated: 2026-05-24