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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.5

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 4.5 wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Larger context window
Price Advantage
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.5
Context Window
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Speed
Claude Opus 4.5

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.5
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 4.5
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicAnthropic
ReleasedNov 2025Sep 2025

Claude Opus 4.5 Modalities

Input
fileimagetext
Output
text

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Modalities

Input
textimagefile
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Claude Sonnet 4.5 has cheaper input pricing at $3.00/M tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 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 4.5's score of 33.5.
Claude Opus 4.5 has a 200,000 token context window, while Claude Sonnet 4.5 has a 1,000,000 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.5 supports vision. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports vision.