anthropic / text-generation API-only released 2025-09-29

Claude Sonnet 4.5

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...

Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
AA Intelligence
20.7
Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + image + file → text Knowledge cutoff Jan 2025 View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$3.00
input / 1M
$15.00
output / 1M
$0.30
cached input / 1M
$18.00
1M in + 1M out
:batch variant $1.50 in · $7.50 out
Price tiers
  • Above 200K prompt tokens: input $6.00/M, output $22.50/M (2× base)
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
64,000 tokens
Providers
5
Cheapest provider
Amazon Bedrock · $3.00 / $15.00
Best throughput
—
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
20.7 / 52.1 / 15.8
✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✓ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)
Current: $3.00 input · $15.00 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index
20.7
AA Coding Index
52.1
AA Agentic Index
15.8
Design Arena
CategoryEloWin %Rank
3d 1158 51% #66
asciiart 1205 56.1% #23
codecategories 1183 51.5% #64
dataviz 1167 47.4% #73
gamedev 1166 51.1% #70
svg 1115 52.2% #58
uicomponent 1169 49.4% #69
website 1190 51.8% #70
fullstack 1050 43.7% #35
mobileapps 1137 52.9% #33
webapps 1059 43.2% #40

Providers

5 providers · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics
ProviderQuantContextInputOutputUptimeTok/s
Amazon Bedrock unknown 1M $3.00 $15.00 100% —
Anthropic unknown 1M $3.00 $15.00 100% —
Azure unknown 200K $3.00 $15.00 — —
Claude Platform on AWS unknown 1M $3.00 $15.00 100% —
Google unknown 1M $3.00 $15.00 — —
Amazon Bedrock unknown 1M $3.30 $16.50 — —
Google unknown 1M $3.30 $16.50 — —
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation
anthropic
Released on OpenRouter
2025-09-29
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
64,000 tokens
Input
text, image, file
Output
text
Knowledge cutoff
January 2025
Tokenizer
Claude
Moderated by provider
Yes
OpenRouter id
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
Compare with
Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.