Claude Sonnet 4.5 API Benchmarks, Pricing & Provider Data
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 benchmark, API pricing, and provider data cover 615 API providers, with prices starting at $0.0041/request. Claude Sonnet 4.5 free API options are available from 8 providers. The page also shows measured API speed and first-token latency.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 balances strong reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities with lower latency and cost than Opus, making it a practical default for production assistants.
Category Performance
Observed-capability estimates with uncertainty reported separately from independent benchmark families.
- Coverage
- 5 / 8
- Methodology
- V3.0
#1Knowledge54.5Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
#2Coding51.8Estimated2/4 Measured dimensions
#3Agents46.6RatedGlobal rank #433/4 Measured dimensions
#4Reasoning45.6Estimated3/4 Measured dimensions
#5Math42.5Estimated2/4 Measured dimensions
Specifications
Input and output token limits for this model, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
Features
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Detailed scores
Updated: Sep 1, 2026Overall
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Overall score48.0#77 / 100
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Input price$3.00/M#156 / 181Output price$15.00/M#156 / 181
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Agents
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Score46.6#4380% interval37.8–55.33/4 Measured dimensionsAgentic score33.4#58 / 69Terminal-Bench 2.050.0#45 / 53
Agents
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Coding
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Score51.880% interval40.6–62.92/4 Measured dimensionsLiveCodeBench59.0%#45 / 115SciCode42.8%#58 / 206
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Reasoning
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Score45.680% interval36.7–54.53/4 Measured dimensionsMMLU-Pro86.0%#23 / 129GPQA72.7%#130 / 213
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Knowledge
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Score54.580% interval38.4–70.51/4 Measured dimensionsKnowledge score72.2#24 / 69
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Math
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Score42.580% interval30.2–54.82/4 Measured dimensionsAIME 202587.0#4 / 4Math score34.9#47 / 62
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Multilingual
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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
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80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensionsDesign Arena Website1201.0#47 / 75
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Instruction following
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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
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OpenRouter endpoints
7 endpointsThird-party OpenRouter endpoint data, shown separately from LMSpeed measurements. Some 30-minute live performance fields only appear after syncing with an OpenRouter API key.
| Provider endpoint | Input | Output | 1d uptime | 30m latency | 30m throughput | Context / output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Google google-vertex/global | $3/M | $15/M | 100.0% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Anthropic anthropic | $3/M | $15/M | 99.9% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Amazon Bedrock amazon-bedrock | $3/M | $15/M | 99.9% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Amazon Bedrock amazon-bedrock/eu-west-1 | $3.30/M | $16.50/M | 99.8% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Azure azure/global | $3/M | $15/M | 99.7% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Claude Platform on AWS claude-on-aws | $3/M | $15/M | 99.6% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Google google-vertex/us-east5 | $3.30/M | $16.50/M | — | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Pricing Comparison
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 API pricing across 607 providers. Prices range from $0.0041/request to $9600.00/M. 钠 API offers the lowest rate at $0.0041/request. 8 providers offer free API credits or a free tier.
| Provider | Health | Model Variant | Group | Input ($/M) | Output ($/M) | Speed (t/s) | First token | Audit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | default | -93%$0.205/M Cache read$0.021/M | -93%$1.03/M | 41.4 t/s | 3.27 s | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5 | default | $3.00/M Cache read$0.300/M | $15.00/M | 28.8 t/s | 9.80 s | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | default | $2.99/M Cache read$0.299/MCache write$3.74/MCache write 1h$5.98/M | $14.96/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | cc | -64%$1.07/M Cache read$0.107/M | -64%$5.36/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | claude_kiro | -65%$1.05/M | -65%$5.25/M | — | — | — | |
L1 99% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | aws | -99%$0.035/M Cache read$0.0035/MCache write$0.044/MCache write 1h$0.070/M | -99%$0.176/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | default | -86%$0.410/M Cache read$0.041/MCache write$0.512/MCache write 1h$0.820/M | -86%$2.05/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | default | -86%$0.411/M | -86%$2.05/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4.5 | default | -86%$0.411/M | -86%$2.05/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5 | default | -86%$0.411/M | -86%$2.05/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-all | claude_official_re_19 | -74%$0.781/M | -74%$3.90/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | default | -86%$0.411/M Cache read$0.041/M | -86%$2.05/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | default | $3.00/M Cache read$0.300/MCache write$3.75/MCache write 1h$6.00/M | $15.00/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | default | -23%$2.30/M | -23%$11.51/M | — | — | — | |
兔子API Free | L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5 | Claude-Code | Free | Free | — | — | — |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-all | default | Free | Free | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | default | Free | Free | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-c | default | $0.114/request | - | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5 | default | $3.00/M Cache read$0.300/M | $15.00/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | default | $3.00/M Cache read$0.300/MCache write$3.75/MCache write 1h$6.00/M | $15.00/M | — | — | — |
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What benchmark data does Claude Sonnet 4.5 include?
- LMSpeed shows Claude Sonnet 4.5 benchmark context, API price, output speed, first-token latency, and provider data across 615 providers when those signals are available.
- What is the Claude Sonnet 4.5 API price?
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 has pricing from 615 providers, ranging from $0.0041/request to $9600.00/M. 钠 API has the lowest listed price.
- What does the Claude Sonnet 4.5 API pricing table include?
- The Claude Sonnet 4.5 API pricing table compares 615 providers by input price, output price, free tier status, speed, first-token latency, and recent health data when available.
- Which provider has the cheapest Claude Sonnet 4.5 API pricing?
- 钠 API currently has the lowest listed Claude Sonnet 4.5 price at $0.0041/request across 615 providers.
- Can I compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 API price and speed together?
- Yes. LMSpeed shows Claude Sonnet 4.5 API price, output speed, first-token latency, and provider health on the same page so you can compare cost and performance together.
- Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 API free?
- Yes, Claude Sonnet 4.5 free API options are available through 8 providerundefined other undefined} on LMSpeed, including 兔子API, Dext API, 兔子API, 兔子API, 兔子API. These providers offer free API credits or a free tier with no per-token charges.
- Where can I get Claude Sonnet 4.5 free API access?
- LMSpeed currently lists 8 free API providerundefined other undefined} for Claude Sonnet 4.5: 兔子API, Dext API, 兔子API, 兔子API, 兔子API. Check each provider row before using it because free tier limits can change.
