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Claude Sonnet 5.5

Generally Available

Second model in the Claude 5.5 family, launched September 28, 2026 as a faster, lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5 for well-scoped coding, documents, slides and spreadsheets. Official pricing is $2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens and $0.20 per million cache-read tokens, the same as Sonnet 5; Anthropic says it runs 30%+ faster and costs up to 30% less per task because it uses fewer tokens. Available as claude-sonnet-5-5 on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Haiku 5.5 remains unshipped.

Latest update Sep 29, 2026

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Current status

Generally available September 28, 2026 on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Distinct from Opus 5.5, which launched September 22.

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In the news2

  1. Anthropic says new defenses cut Claude distillation 90-99%

    On Oct. 12, 2026 Anthropic said new safeguards cut the Claude reasoning tokens distillers could extract on its own platform by about 90 to 99 percent, a 10- to 100-fold drop, with a stated false-positive rate under 0.1 percent. The classifier runs on Claude Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5 and 5.5, and Fable 5 and 5.1. Anthropic also said Zhipu distilled cyber capabilities from leading US models while building GLM-5.3. That allegation is Anthropic's and was not independently confirmed in this pass. Al Jazeera reported the 90-99 percent figure.

    www.anthropic.com www.aljazeera.com + Zhipu AI (Z.ai)

  2. Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 after Opus 5.5

    Anthropic on September 28 released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family, as a faster, lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5 for well-scoped coding, documents, slides and spreadsheets. The official product page prices it at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, unchanged from Sonnet 5, and says it runs 30%+ faster and costs up to 30% less per task because it uses fewer tokens; it is available on the Claude API as claude-sonnet-5-5 and on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Reuters reported the launch the same day and said Haiku 5.5 is still due soon.

    www.anthropic.com www.reuters.com

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