Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model, released June 30, 2026, with performance close to Opus 4.8 at a lower price. On GPTProto the Sonnet 5 API runs from $1.6 / $8 per 1M tokens — roughly 20% below Anthropic's own rate — billed from a single balance shared across every model on the platform.

Modalities

Context

API Usage Examples

curl --request POST "https://gptproto.com/v1/chat/completions" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $GPTPROTO_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "model": "claude-sonnet-5",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello"
      }
    ]
  }'

Claude Sonnet 5 pricing

Chat, coding agents & document work. Priced per 1M tokens — input, cached input and output are billed separately. GPTProto is 10% below official rates.

Your usage

Model

Claude · ≈ 148M tokens/mo (48M cached)

Monthly volume

OpenRouter

List + 5.5% credit fee

$288.65

per month

Input (non-cached)$67.52

Cache read$10.128

Output$211

Claude

Direct from Claude (list price)

$273.60

per month

Input (non-cached)$64

Cache read$9.6

Output$200

BEST VALUE

GPTProto

10% off official

$246.24

per month

After discount$246.24

Effective$246.24

Monthly cost by source

OpenRouter

$288.65

Claude

$273.60

GPTProto

$246.24

Save $27.36 / month

on GPTProto vs Claude (−10%)

Annual savings ≈ $328.32 · pay as you go

OpenRouter costs include its ~5.5% credit purchase fee. GPTProto applies a per-model discount (10–30% off) and your bonus credits are also spent at discounted rates — savings compound. Estimates assume a 60% cache hit rate.

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Model					Input → Output
Claude Sonnet 5Current $		1M	$1.80 / $9.00 per 1M	$2.25 / $0.18 per 1M	Input: TextInput: Document Output: Text
DeepSeek Flash $	—	—	$0.30 / $1.20 per 1M	— / $0.006 per 1M	Input: TextInput: Image Output: Text
Hy4 Preview $		1.05M	$0.79 / $2.38 per 1M	— / $0.04 per 1M	Input: Text Output: Text
GPT 6 Astra $		1.05M	$8.00 / $40.00 per 1M	$10.00 / $0.80 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: Document Output: Text
Gemini 3.8 Flash $		1.05M	$0.90 / $4.50 per 1M	$0.60 / $0.09 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: VideoInput: DocumentInput: Audio Output: Text
Claude Fable 5.1 $		1M	$9.00 / $45.00 per 1M	$11.25 / $0.23 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: Document Output: Text
Qwen3.8 Max 0902 $		1M	$1.80 / $5.40 per 1M	$2.25 / $0.23 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: VideoInput: DocumentInput: Audio Output: Text
GLM 5.3 Flash $	—	1.31M	$0.15 / $0.50 per 1M	— / $0.03 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: VideoInput: Document Output: Text
DeepSeek v4 Flash Vision Exp $	—	1.05M	$0.30 / $1.20 per 1M	— / $0.006 per 1M	Input: TextInput: Image Output: Text
GLM 5.3 $		1.31M	$1.26 / $3.96 per 1M	— / $0.23 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: Document Output: Text
Gemini 3.7 Flash $		1.05M	$0.90 / $4.50 per 1M	$0.60 / $0.09 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: Document Output: Text
Grok 4.6 $		500K	$1.20 / $3.60 per 1M	— / $0.30 per 1M	Input: TextInput: Image Output: Text
Qwen3.8 Max $		1M	$1.80 / $5.40 per 1M	$2.25 / $0.23 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: VideoInput: Document Output: Text
Claude Opus 5 $		1M	$4.50 / $22.50 per 1M	$5.63 / $0.45 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: Document Output: Text
Gemini 3.6 Flash $		1.05M	$0.90 / $4.50 per 1M	$0.60 / $0.09 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: Document Output: Text
Kimi K3 $		1.05M	$2.70 / $13.50 per 1M	$0.27 / $0.27 per 1M	Input: TextInput: ImageInput: Document Output: Text
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Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking $		1M	$4.50 / $22.50 per 1M	$5.63 / $0.45 per 1M	Input: TextInput: Document Output: Text
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Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking (Build 250715) $		262K	$0.10 / $0.97 per 1M	—	Input: TextInput: Image Output: Text
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Sonnet 5 API

Run the Claude Sonnet 5 API on GPTProto from $1.6 / $8 per 1M tokens — about 20% under Anthropic's own rate, on one shared balance that also covers 200+ other models.

Built for Multi-File Coding

Strong on multi-file coding and debugging: Sonnet 5 reaches 63.2% on Anthropic's reported agentic-coding benchmark, above Sonnet 4.6 (58.1%) and near Opus 4.8 (69.2%).

Most Agentic Sonnet Yet

Sonnet 5 plans and runs multi-step jobs on its own — driving browsers, terminals, and other tools through the API, and finishing tasks that earlier Sonnet models would stop short on.

Cheaper Than Calling Anthropic Direct

Call the Sonnet 5 API from $1.6 / $8 per 1M tokens — about 20% under Anthropic's current rate — all billed from one shared balance across 200+ models on GPTProto.

Adjustable Thinking Effort

Dial reasoning up for hard problems or down for cheaper, faster calls — one effort parameter, same claude-sonnet-5 model string. Sonnet 5 also carries a 1M-token context window for whole codebases in one request.

What Is Claude Sonnet 5?

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model released June 30, 2026, positioned as its most agentic Sonnet yet. It plans, uses tools like browsers and terminals, and carries multi-step tasks to completion — often finishing work where earlier Sonnet models would stop partway. On Anthropic's own benchmarks its agentic performance lands close to Opus 4.8 while costing less per token, which is why the Sonnet 5 API is aimed squarely at developers running agents and high-volume coding workloads on a budget.

On GPTProto you call the same claude-sonnet-5 model string through one API key and one balance, at a price below Anthropic's direct rate — and the same key already works across 200+ other models if you want to route cheaper tasks elsewhere.

Sonnet 5 Specifications

Spec	Claude Sonnet 5
Provider	Anthropic
Model string	`claude-sonnet-5`
Modality (on GPTProto)	Text → Text (no image input)
Context window	1M tokens (standard pricing, no long-context surcharge)
Thinking effort	Adjustable (dial reasoning per request)
GPTProto price /1M	$1.6 input / $8 output
Anthropic price /1M	$2 / $10 (intro, through Aug 31 2026) → $3 / $15 standard
Endpoint	`https://gptproto.com/v1/messages`

Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8

All three are on GPTProto, so this compares real, callable models — not a placeholder baseline. Prices are GPTProto's; Anthropic list shown for reference.

	Sonnet 5	Sonnet 4.6	Opus 4.8 (reference)
GPTProto input /1M	$1.6	$2.4	$4
GPTProto output /1M	$8	$12	~$20
Anthropic list /1M	$2/$10 → $3/$15	$3/$15	$5/$25
Agentic coding	63.2%	58.1%	69.2%
Context window	1M	1M	1M

On GPTProto, Sonnet 5 is both the newer model and the cheaper one — it undercuts Sonnet 4.6 ($1.6/$8 vs $2.4/$12) while scoring higher on agentic coding. Opus 4.8 stays ahead on the hardest reasoning tasks; reach for it when accuracy matters more than cost, and route the rest to Sonnet 5.

One honest caveat: Sonnet 5 uses a newer tokenizer that generates about 30% more tokens for the same text than Sonnet 4.6. The per-token price is lower, but your token count per request is higher — so benchmark cost on your own prompts before assuming a flat 20% saving. Agentic-coding figures are Anthropic's reported numbers

Switching From the Official Anthropic API

Moving an existing Anthropic integration to the Sonnet 5 API on GPTProto is a drop-in change — you keep the same request format and model string:

Base URL → point requests to https://gptproto.com/v1/messages.
Auth → use Authorization: Bearer YOUR_GPTPROTO_API_KEY (keep the anthropic-version: 2023-06-01 header).
Model string → unchanged: claude-sonnet-5.

Your message payloads stay the same, so most SDKs migrate by swapping two lines. Runnable Python/cURL is in the Quick Start above. The payoff: one key and one balance across 200+ models, no separate Anthropic account, and a per-token price below Anthropic's direct rate.

Claude Sonnet 5 FAQs

Get expert answers about integrating Claude 5 Sonnet into your applications via the GPTProto API aggregation layer.

How does the Sonnet 5 API on GPTProto differ from Anthropic's?

Same model (claude-sonnet-5), lower price and one shared key. GPTProto runs it at $1.6 / $8 per 1M tokens versus Anthropic's $2 / $10 introductory rate, and the same key works across 200+ models with no separate provider sign-ups.

Is my data used to train the Claude model?

No. Data privacy is a core pillar of our service. Any information or prompts you send to Claude 3.5 Sonnet via our API are not used by Anthropic or GPTProto to train the underlying Claude model. We adhere to strict enterprise-grade security standards, ensuring that your proprietary codebases, sensitive documents, and user interactions remain private and are only used to generate the specific response you requested from the Claude API.

What is the typical latency for Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is optimized for speed. The typical time-to-first-token (TTFT) ranges between 400ms and 600ms. Once generation begins, Claude produces text at a rate of approximately 60 to 80 tokens per second. This makes Claude 3.5 Sonnet significantly faster than Claude 3 Opus, allowing for real-time chat experiences and rapid processing of complex reasoning tasks without sacrificing the quality of the model's output.

Can I migrate from GPT-4o to Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Yes. Point requests at GPTProto's endpoint, swap your model string to claude-sonnet-5, and use the Anthropic-style message format. No separate Anthropic account is needed — one GPTProto key covers it.

Does Claude 3.5 Sonnet support fine-tuning?

Anthropic does not offer customer fine-tuning for Claude models. Shape behavior with system prompts and the adjustable thinking-effort control instead.

How much is the Sonnet 5 API?

On GPTProto, $1.6 per 1M input tokens and $8 per 1M output tokens. That is about 20% under Anthropic's introductory rate ($2 / $10) and roughly 47% under the standard rate ($3 / $15) that starts September 1, 2026.

Is the Sonnet 5 API cheaper than going direct?

Yes. At $1.6 / $8 per 1M, GPTProto is below Anthropic's own list price for the same model. Note that Sonnet 5 uses a newer tokenizer that produces roughly 30% more tokens per text than Sonnet 4.6, so compare on real workloads, not headline rates alone.

Sonnet 5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 — which should I call?

Sonnet 5 is the newer model and, on GPTProto, the cheaper one: $1.6 / $8 versus Sonnet 4.6 at $2.4 / $12. It scores higher on agentic coding (63.2% vs 58.1%). Sonnet 4.6 remains a stable pinned option if you need version consistency.

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Sonnet 5 API

Built for Multi-File Coding

Most Agentic Sonnet Yet

Cheaper Than Calling Anthropic Direct

Adjustable Thinking Effort

What Is Claude Sonnet 5?

Sonnet 5 Specifications

Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8

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Is my data used to train the Claude model?

What is the typical latency for Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Can I migrate from GPT-4o to Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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