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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with...

38.6 Coding Index*83.1% PinchBench§#10 Code Mode57.8 tokens/sec*$3.00/1M input tokens
Release Date
September 29, 2025
Context Window
1,000,000 tokens
Max Output
64,000 tokens
Input Modalities
textimagefile

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Benchmarking Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5

Coding Performance

Coding benchmarks and performance metrics for development tasks

Coding Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore
AA Coding Index38.6%
LiveCodeBench71.4%
SciCode44.7%
TerminalBench Hard35.6%
LCR65.7%
IFBench57.3%

Speed & Efficiency

MetricValue
Output Speed58 tok/s

Performance metrics from Artificial Analysis

PinchBench data · refreshed daily

OpenClaw Benchmarks

PinchBench measures how Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 performs on real OpenClaw agent tasks: multi-step execution, tool use, recovery, latency, and cost.

Average score

83.1%

#7 of 50 official models

Average time

17m 14s

30 runs · per OpenClaw task

Average cost

$2.951

Per benchmark run

Category breakdown

Best verified PinchBench v2 run by OpenClaw task family.

Uncategorized94.7% · 5/11 cleared

Top task results

Highest-scoring benchmark tasks from the same submission.

Uncategorized
00 Sanity
100.0%
Uncategorized
01 Calendar
100.0%
Uncategorized
02 Stock
100.0%
Uncategorized
04 Weather
100.0%
Uncategorized
09 Files
100.0%
Uncategorized
03 Blog
93.3%

Autonomous task execution

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 shows strong average success across OpenClaw-style benchmark runs, useful for recurring research, browser, and file-based automations.

Tool use and recovery

PinchBench tasks stress multi-step planning, tool calls, and judge-verified completion rather than single prompt coding snippets.

Agent workflow fit

Its deliberate average runtime and premium run cost help set expectations for long-running KiloClaw agents and production workflows.

Agentic benchmarks from the PinchBench Leaderboard

Real-World Usage

Real-world usage statistics from the Kilo Code community

Weekly Token Usage

Mode Rankings (Last Week)

Where this model ranks for each built-in mode

Code

Write, modify, and refactor code

#10

Ask

Get answers and explanations

#16

Debug

Diagnose and fix software issues

#16

Orchestrator

Coordinate tasks across multiple modes

#20

Real-world metrics from the Kilo Code Leaderboard

Pricing

Cost per 1 million tokens

Input Tokens
$3.00
per 1M tokens
Output Tokens
$15.00
per 1M tokens

Example Cost

Analyzing a 10,000 line codebase (≈40k input tokens, 10k output tokens) costs approximately $0.2700

Coding Capabilities

Features and parameters relevant to coding tasks

Coding Features

Function Calling
Can call external functions/APIs
Tool Choice
Control over function selection
Structured Outputs
JSON schema validation
Reasoning Tokens
Extended thinking for complex problems

Pricing details from OpenRouter

Technical Details

Architecture and implementation specifications

Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
Artificial Analysis Slug
claude-4-5-sonnet-thinking
Created
September 29, 2025
Tokenizer
Claude
Input Modalities
text, image, file
Context Window
1,000,000 tokens
Max Completion Tokens
64,000 tokens
Input Price
$3.00 per 1M tokens
Output Price
$15.00 per 1M tokens
Cache Read Price
$0.30 per 1M tokens
Cache Write Price
$3.75 per 1M tokens
Content Moderation
Enabled

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