Claude Sonnet 5.5 offers the best combination of speed and intelligence in the Claude lineup, with a 1M-token context window and fast comparative latency. It accepts text and images and returns text, with adaptive thinking on by default at high effort — the lowest setting, between_tools, turns off up-front thinking rather than disabling reasoning entirely, unlike Sonnet 5 where thinking could be fully turned off. Five breaking changes apply versus Sonnet 5: forced tool use now returns an error, thinking blocks are tied to the model and conversation, the older computer_20251124 tool is no longer accepted, the advisor tool rejects older models as advisors, and text between tool calls now arrives in thinking blocks unless a display value or between_tools is set.
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<FASTROUTER_API_KEY> with your actual API keypip install openaiModel scores sourced from ArtificialAnalysis