Scheduled for retirement on Sep 29, 2027. Still available at the prices below until then.
Context
1M
Max output
128K
Serving providers
6
Cheapest input
$2.00 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Speed & latency
Output speed
137 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
435.21s
latency
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
Aa Analyst Agent0.6default—
Automation Bench0.7default—
CritPt31%default—
GDPval (normalized)Frozen Aug 18, 202667%default—
Harvey Lab0.0default—
Humanity's Last Exam55%default—
Long-Context Reasoning83%default—
Omniscience32.3default—
Omniscience Accuracy0.5default—
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.5default—
SciCode61%default—
Terminal Bench400.6default—
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand
Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
AnthropicCheapest$2.00$10.001
Standardclaude-sonnet-5-5
ComponentUnitStandardBatch
Text cached in/1M tok$0.10—
Text cache write/1M tok$2.50—
Text input/1M tok$2.00$1.00
Text output/1M tok$10.00$5.00
Azure$2.00$10.001
Amazon Bedrock$2.00$10.001
OpenRouter$2.00$10.001
VercelVercel reseller quote$2.00$10.001
Vertex AI Anthropic Models$2.00$10.001
OpenRouter (batch)$1.00$5.001

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
$0.00$5.00$10.00Sep 29Oct 8$10.00$2.00

Cost calculator

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$1,200
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Model IDs

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anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5:batchclaude-sonnet-5-5anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5vertex_ai/claude-sonnet-5-5azure_ai/claude-sonnet-5-5

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 5.5 pricing, context and availability

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 still available?

Yes. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is scheduled for retirement on 2027-09-29.

How much does Claude Sonnet 5.5 cost?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens from Anthropic, and $10.00 per 1M output tokens from Anthropic.

What is the context window of Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts up to 1M tokens of context and can return up to 128K output tokens.

Which providers serve Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available from 6 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Anthropic is currently the cheapest.

What can Claude Sonnet 5.5 do?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports image input (vision), tool use, reasoning, prompt caching, structured output and web search.

Other Anthropic models

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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026

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