Claude Sonnet 5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

Metric
Claude Sonnet 5Anthropicanthropic/claude-sonnet-5
Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropicanthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5
Creator
Anthropic
Anthropic
Released
Jul 1, 2026
Sep 28, 2026
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
128K
128K
Input / 1MLowest provider price
$2.00
$2.00
Output / 1MLowest provider price
$10.00
$10.00
Providers
2 (best)
1
IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index
38.2
56.0 (best)
CodingArtificial Analysis index
71.5
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LatencyMedian time to first token
4.4s
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ThroughputMedian tokens per second
<1 t/s
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Accepts
Text, Image
Text, Image
Produces
Text
Text
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Yes

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5: summary

Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

Claude Sonnet 5, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs from $2.00/1M input and $10.00/1M output tokens across 2 providers and scores 38.2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Claude Sonnet 5.5, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs $2.00/1M input and $10.00/1M output tokens and scores 56.0 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores highest for intelligence.

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client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-5", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5", messages=[...])
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