Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Claude Opus 5.5

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Language Models · verified 29 Sept 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropiccurrent

Claude Opus 5.5Anthropiccurrent

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Specification	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Claude Opus 5.5
Summary	Above Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench, at half the input price.	Fable 5.1's level of work on most tasks, at 40% less to run than Opus 5.
Context	1M	1M
Input ($/Mtok)	$2	$4
Output ($/Mtok)	$10	$20
Licence	Proprietary	Proprietary
Max output	128K	128K
Parameters	Not published	Not published
Released	28 Sep 2026	22 Sep 2026
Model ID	claude-sonnet-5-5	claude-opus-5-5
Category	Language Models	Language Models
Official	Anthropic ↗	Anthropic ↗

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70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, against 66.4% for Opus 5.5 six days earlier
1844 on GDPval-AA, level with Opus 5.5's 1846
More than 30% faster than Sonnet 5, and Anthropic says up to 30% less per task on tokens

Best for agentic coding at volume.

66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against 52.3% for Opus 5, on Anthropic's own harness
Cache reads cut 60% to $0.20, and output more than 30% faster than Opus 5
Attempts to work around its boundaries 85% less often than Opus 5, Anthropic reports

Best for agentic coding at flagship quality.