โจ Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 Lands: Near-Opus 4.8 Performance at Introductory $2/$10 Pricing
Anthropic launched Sonnet 5 with benchmarks close to Opus 4.8 but at a fraction of the cost โ $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, locked in through August 31. It joins GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 in a fierce model battle that has pushed output token prices from $25-50 down to the $4-10 range. Which model are you betting on for your next project?