Using Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Anthropic

Implementation guide · Claude 4.5 · Anthropic

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Anthropic exposes Claude Sonnet 4.5 through model ID claude-sonnet-4-5. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Anthropic and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Anthropic SDK or REST API to call claude-sonnet-4-5 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $3.00/1M input, $15.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install anthropic
API key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
Model ID
claude-sonnet-4-5

Use the versioned model ID, e.g. "claude-sonnet-4-6" or "claude-opus-4-7-20251101".

import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()  # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-5",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(message.content[0].text)

Pricing on Anthropic

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$3.00
Output tokens$15.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

About Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic's Claude 4.5 model with multimodal text and image input and an optional reasoning mode. It offers a 200K-token context window and scores 86 on MMLU PRO.

Model Specs

Released2025-09-29
Context200k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-12

Provider

Anthropic

San Francisco, California, United States