Compare Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) and Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) by price, context, capabilities, and latency.
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| Model | Provider | Input | Output | Context | Capabilities | Best for | Latency | Status | Source |
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| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 | Anthropic | $0.723 / 1M tokens | $3.62 / 1M tokens | 1M | StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 1000-3000ms | Catalog | Platform curated |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | Anthropic | $0.289 / 1M tokens | $1.45 / 1M tokens | 1M | StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 1000-3000ms | Catalog | Platform curated |
FAQ
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 is cheaper ($0.289 / 1M tokens input / $1.45 / 1M tokens output) vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 ($0.723 / 1M tokens input / $3.62 / 1M tokens output). Actual cost depends on your input/output token mix — estimate it with the pricing calculator.
Both offer the same context window: 1M tokens.
Both target Vision. Pick Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 to optimize cost, or Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 for the longer context window. Test both on real prompts before committing production traffic.
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