Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)
By Anthropic · released 2026-06-30 (2 weeks) · snapshot 2026-07-17
- Price per 1M tokens (in / out)
- $2.00 / $10.0
- End-to-end time
- 10.8s
Is Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?
Not ranked · benchmark data missing
Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) does not report both selected axis metrics.
Open in the picker Daily check URL: 200 on the frontier, 409 once beaten
Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) today
Benchmark data unavailable
Intelligence and benchmark cost are both required to place this model on the frontier. Missing data is not a performance verdict.
- Intelligence index
- Not reported
- Benchmark cost
- Not reported
- Input / 1M tokens
- 2.00
- Output / 1M tokens
- 10.00
- Context window
- Not reported
Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: claude-sonnet-5-medium.
Compare head to head
Suggested: what beats it, its effort levels, and frontier models near its price.
- Claude Sonnet 5 (medium) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)
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- Claude Sonnet 5 (medium) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort)
- Claude Sonnet 5 (medium) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort)
- Claude Sonnet 5 (medium) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort)
Compare Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) with measured models
What the Claude Sonnet 5 release did to the frontier on 2026-06-30
None of its 6 effort levels reached the frontier at launch.
Closest miss: Claude Sonnet 5 (non-reasoning, high), 0.5 points below MiMo-V2.5-Pro at 4.3× the cost.
Should you use Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)?
Should you use Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)?
No verdict: it does not report both intelligence and benchmark cost.
What is better and cheaper than Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)?
Other models on the intelligence-vs-cost frontier
How much does Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) cost?
$2.00/$10 in/out per 1M tokens, and - to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.
Frontier membership by axis pair
Other axis pairs where Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) is Pareto-optimal.
| Y axis | X axis | On the frontier |
|---|---|---|
| AA intelligence index | AA total cost to run (USD) | no data |
| AA intelligence index | End-to-end total seconds | no data |
| AA intelligence index | Output speed tokens/sec | no data |
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