Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback)
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a step-change improvement over Sonnet 5 for well-scoped everyday work like building features, fixing bugs, and creating polished documents, slides, and spreadsheets. It also writes more clearly than Sonnet 5.
Introducing Claude SonnetModel Snapshot
TypeLanguage
ReleaseSep 28, 2026
Context1,000,000
Tagsexplicit-caching, file-input, reasoning, tool-use
Overall
Rank #32 across 709
46.7
Coding
No rank
n/a
Blended Price
Rank #335 across 432
$4.00/M
Strength Profile
Percentile score by analysis domain.
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Benchmark Percentiles
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Model Details
Runtime
Output Speed102 tok/s
First Token6.95s
Max Output128,000
Pricing
Blended$4.00/M
Input$2.00/M
All Benchmarks
| Metric | Domain | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | overall | 46.7 | #32 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | reasoning | 45.8% | #38 |
| SciCode | coding, reasoning | 53.7% | #62 |
| Output Speed | speed | 102 tok/s | #78 |
| Time to First Token |