claude-sonnet-4-6 vs claude-sonnet-5
Side-by-side comparison of claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-sonnet-5: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. claude-sonnet-5 outperforms claude-sonnet-4-6 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks.
claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
claude-sonnet-5
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$10.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-647.2%
claude-sonnet-553.4%
Coding Indexcoding
claude-sonnet-4-663.0%
claude-sonnet-571.5%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-687.5%
claude-sonnet-591.1%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
claude-sonnet-4-653.0%
claude-sonnet-5N/A
τ²-Benchagentic
claude-sonnet-4-675.7%
claude-sonnet-5N/A
SciCodecoding
claude-sonnet-4-646.8%
claude-sonnet-553.6%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-630.0%
claude-sonnet-539.6%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| claude-sonnet-4-6 | claude-sonnet-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $2.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $15.00 | $10.00 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 128K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | Yes | Yes |
| Provider | Anthropic PBC | Anthropic PBC |
Questions people ask
Is claude-sonnet-4-6 better than claude-sonnet-5?
claude-sonnet-5 outperforms claude-sonnet-4-6 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-sonnet-5 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, claude-sonnet-4-6 or claude-sonnet-5?
claude-sonnet-5 is cheaper. claude-sonnet-4-6 costs $3.00/$15.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while claude-sonnet-5 costs $2.00/$10.00.
Can I use claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-sonnet-5 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6" and "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
claude-sonnet-4-6 supports up to 1M tokens of context. claude-sonnet-5 supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
Switch between claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-sonnet-5 with one line of code
Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API for 400+ models. Change the model parameter, not your code.