Claude Sonnet 5.5 Benchmarks, Pricing & Rankings

Anthropic · 2026-09-22 · Closed · Current

Snapshot 2026-10-14 · updated weekly

Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks #5 of 42 on the AMR leaderboard.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond92.8%
MMLU-Pro89%
SWE-Bench Verified76.5%
AIME 202592.4%
LiveCodeBench v681.2%
Arena Elo1462

Claude Sonnet 5.5 price, speed & context

Input price

$3

per 1M tokens

Output price

$15

per 1M tokens

Speed

156

tok/s

Context

500K

tokens

About Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 shipped alongside Opus 5.5 and delivers roughly 95% of its sibling’s coding ability at 38% of the output price — the default pick for production coding agents.

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 FAQ

Where does Claude Sonnet 5.5 rank?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks #5 of 42 tracked AI models on the AMR aggregate as of October 2026, with an aggregate score of 94.7. Its strongest dimension is GPQA Diamond at 92.8%.

How much does Claude Sonnet 5.5 cost?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens on the standard API. At a typical 1:3 input/output agent workload, that blends to roughly $12.00 per million tokens.

What is the Claude Sonnet 5.5 context window?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports a 500K token context window and generates at a median 156 output tokens per second. That context fits roughly 333 standard documents in a single prompt.

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 open source?

No — Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a closed model available only through Anthropic’s official API and authorized cloud partners.

What is better than Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Fable 5.1 ranks one place higher at #4 with an AMR score of 94.9. Claude Sonnet 5.5 still wins 0 of the tracked dimensions head-to-head — check the comparison table to see exactly which.