MODEL PROOF
Claude Sonnet 5.5
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Muse Spark 1.3 · Δ score 19.2 points · 50% lower measured price · $2.00 / 1M tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash is a further stored option with these losses: 128K → 66K max output
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,470.6 ± 7.96 · 6,254 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, with at least 90% of the reference context 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 | $0.100/M |
| Cache write | $2.50/M |
| Cache write 1h | $4.00/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/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.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Googlegoogle-vertex/global Endpoint terms
| $2.00 | $10.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock Endpoint terms
| $2.00 | $10.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Azureazure/global Endpoint terms
| $2.00 | $10.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws Endpoint terms
| $2.00 | $10.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Anthropicanthropic Endpoint terms
| $2.00 | $10.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/us Endpoint terms
| $2.20 | $11.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Azureazure/us Endpoint terms
| $2.20 | $11.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/europe Endpoint terms
| $2.20 | $11.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1470.6xhigh |
|---|---|
| LMArena row | claude-sonnet-5.5-xhigh |
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- Game development #1 1468
- Data visualisation #2 1390
- Code categories #3 1364
- UI components #3 1369
- 3D #3 1456
- Web apps #3 1305
- Websites #5 1327
- Spreadsheet #5 1248
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 window | 1M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 128K |
| Input modes | text, image, file |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| Open weights | no |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-21 |
| Quality data | verified |
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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