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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.5 wins:

  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math

Claude Sonnet 4 wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
Price Advantage
Claude Sonnet 4
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.5
Context Window
Claude Sonnet 4
Speed
Claude Opus 4.5

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.5Claude Sonnet 4
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.5Claude Sonnet 4
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicAnthropic
ReleasedNov 2025May 2025

Claude Opus 4.5 Modalities

Input
fileimagetext
Output
text

Claude Sonnet 4 Modalities

Input
imagetextfile
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Claude Sonnet 4 has cheaper input pricing at $3.00/M tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 has cheaper output pricing at $15.00/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 42.9, compared to Claude Sonnet 4's score of 30.6.
Claude Opus 4.5 has a 200,000 token context window, while Claude Sonnet 4 has a 200,000 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.5 supports vision. Claude Sonnet 4 supports vision.