Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with improvements across system design, code security, and specification adherence. The model is designed for extended autonomous operation, maintaining task continuity across sessions and providing fact-based progress tracking.
Sonnet 4.5 also introduces stronger agentic capabilities, including improved tool orchestration, speculative parallel execution, and more efficient context and memory management. With enhanced context tracking and awareness of token usage across tool calls, it is particularly well-suited for multi-context and long-running workflows. Use cases span software engineering, cybersecurity, financial analysis, research agents, and other domains requiring sustained reasoning and tool use.
Modalities
In / Out Price
$1.50 / $7.50per 1M
Context
1M
Released
Sep 29, 2025
Knowledge Cutoff
Jan 2025
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with improvements across system design, code security, and specification adherence.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) costs $1.50/M input tokens and $7.50/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.15/M tokens, Cache Write at $1.875/M tokens, Cache Write (1h) at $3.00/M tokens and Web Search at $10.00/1K calls.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) has a 1,000,000 token context window. It supports up to 64,000 completion tokens.
Yes. Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) accepts text, images and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.
Claude Opus 5 (Fast), Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5 and 13 more are other text models from Anthropic.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) was released on September 29, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is January 31, 2025.
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