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Claude Sonnet 5.5 specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

closed weights · #8 overall, podium score 22.7 · top 10 on 5 of 9 · released Sep 28, 2026

Facts

Provider
Anthropic
Release date
Sep 28, 2026
Boards
Parameters
Not disclosed by Anthropic
Modalities
Text, Image, Files to Text
OpenRouter
License
Proprietary
LMArena
Context window
1M tokens
Pricing
Pricing
$2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens
All prices
Hosting
8 priced API routes · OpenRouter
Pricing
Weights
Closed weights
Benchmarks
9 boards captured, #8 overall

9 of 9 boards

Versions and release history

7 versions in this line since Feb 24, 2025, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

VersionReleased
Claude Sonnet 5.5this modelSep 28, 20267 days ago
Claude Sonnet 5Jun 30, 20263 months ago
Claude Sonnet 4.6Feb 17, 20267 months ago
Claude Sonnet 4.5Sep 29, 20251 year ago
Claude Sonnet 4May 14, 20251 year ago
Claude 3.7 SonnetFeb 24, 20251 year ago
Claude Sonnet 3.5
Category ranks, more models and catalog changes

Catalog changes, newest first (kept for good)

  • release dateempty to 2026-09-28Oct 2, 2026 3 days ago
  • addedempty to Claude Sonnet 5.5Oct 2, 2026 3 days ago

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