# Claude Sonnet 5 Review & Benchmarks (2026): Price, Context, Specs | Alher Tech

> Claude Sonnet 5 by Anthropic: benchmarks, pricing, context window, strengths and use cases. Data from official benchmark sources.

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Last updated: August 11, 2026

## Specs

- **Vendor**: Anthropic
- **Released**: June 30, 2026
- **Context window**: 1M tokens
- **Input**: $2 / M tokens
- **Output**: $10 / M tokens

## Benchmarks

## Strengths

- Frontier-class coding and agent work at Sonnet pricing
- 1M-token context
- Adaptive effort, so cost tracks task difficulty

## Weaknesses

- Opus still leads on the very hardest tasks
- Adaptive effort makes per-call cost harder to predict

## Best for

- Production coding copilots
- Agents that must justify their cost
- Most MVP and SaaS workloads

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