Using Claude Sonnet 5 on Anthropic

Implementation guide · Claude 5 · Anthropic

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Anthropic exposes Claude Sonnet 5 through model ID claude-sonnet-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-5 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $2.00/1M input, $10.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install anthropic
API key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
Model ID
claude-sonnet-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-5",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(message.content[0].text)

Pricing on Anthropic

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$2.00
Output tokens$10.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch API

About Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's next-generation Sonnet model for agentic coding, tool use, computer use, and professional work. It is a proprietary decoder-only model with a 1M-token context window, 128K max output, multimodal vision, adaptive thinking, function calling, structured outputs, prompt caching, and Batch API support. It is available through the Claude API, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry preview, and OpenRouter. Anthropic lists durable standard pricing at $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens, with introductory $2/$10 pricing through 2026-08-31.

Model Specs

Released2026-06-30
Context1m
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2026-01

Provider

Anthropic

San Francisco, California, United States