🤖Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 Runs Agents at Half the Price
TL;DR
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, its most agentic Sonnet yet, approaching Opus 4.8 quality at a fraction of the cost. Intro pricing is $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens through August 31.
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, its most agentic Sonnet yet, approaching Opus 4.8 quality at a fraction of the cost. Intro pricing is $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens through August 31. It is now the default model for Free and Pro users.
Key Points
Default model for Claude Free and Pro from June 30; also on Max, Team, Enterprise
Intro price $2/M input and $10/M output through Aug 31, then $3/M and $15/M
Anthropic says it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower cost
Built for autonomous tool use: browsers, terminals, multi-step planning
Ships in Claude Code and via the API as claude-sonnet-5
Why It Matters
Cheaper near-frontier models change the math on running agents at scale, pressuring rivals to cut per-token costs rather than chase benchmark wins alone.
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Why does this matter?
Cheaper near-frontier models change the math on running agents at scale, pressuring rivals to cut per-token costs rather than chase benchmark wins alone.
What happened?
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, its most agentic Sonnet yet, approaching Opus 4.8 quality at a fraction of the cost. Intro pricing is $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens through August 31.
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