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Claude Sonnet 5.5

BETTER VALUE OPTION

A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.

$4.00 / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

Muse Spark 1.3 · Δ score 23.3 points · 50% lower measured price · $2.00 / 1M tokens

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is a further stored option with these losses: no file input

Independent LMArena score
1,466.6 ± 10.4 · 3,145 votes
Context window
1M
Maximum output
128K
Input modalities
text, image, file
Output modalities
text
Published input price
$2.00 / 1M tokens
Published output price
$10.00 / 1M tokens
Pricing kind
fixed

Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.

Price from Anthropic: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.

Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
Input$2.00/M
Output$10.00/M
Cached input$0.200/M
Cache write$2.50/M
Cache write 1h$4.00/M
ReasoningUnknown/M
Web search$0.01/call

Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

8 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions

Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.

SellerInputOutputPrecisionUptime (1d)
Googlegoogle-vertex/global
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$2.00 $10.00 undeclared 99.99%
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$2.00 $10.00 undeclared 99.99%
Azureazure/global
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
99.84%
$2.00 $10.00 undeclared 99.99%
Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$2.00 $10.00 undeclared 99.99%
Anthropicanthropic
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$2.00 $10.00 undeclared 99.97%
Googlegoogle-vertex/us
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.220
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$2.20 $11.00 undeclared 99.99%
Azureazure/us
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.220
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
Unknown
$2.20 $11.00 undeclared 100.00%
Googlegoogle-vertex/europe
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.220
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$2.20 $11.00 undeclared 100.00%

Independent scores

LMArena Elo1466.6xhigh

LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.

Best rankings by task

  • UI components #1 1405

Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.

Capability

Context window1M
Max output128K
Input modestext, image, file
Tool useyes
Reasoningalways on
Open weightsno

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-10-06
Quality dataverified

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, succeeding Claude Sonnet 5 as a direct upgrade. It is especially strong at building features, fixing bugs, and producing...

Questions this page answers

What does Claude Sonnet 5.5 cost?

$2.00/M in, $10.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

Does Claude Sonnet 5.5 have an independent quality score?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.

What beats Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Muse Spark 1.3 has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.

Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Claude Sonnet 5.5?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

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