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Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Opus 5 grades higher overall (90.0 against 77.4). Claude Sonnet 5 costs 40% less for the same work, and both read a 1M-token context.

Claude Opus 5

by Anthropic · #4 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$25.00

Claude Sonnet 5

by Anthropic · #20 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00

Better overall

Claude Opus 5

Grade 90.0 vs 77.4

Cheaper

Claude Sonnet 5

40% less, $6.00 vs $10.00 blended

Larger context

Same

1M vs 1M tokens

SWE-bench Verified

Claude Opus 5

96% vs 85.2%

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Sonnet 5Claude Sonnet 5: 1,461
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Sonnet 5Claude Sonnet 5: 1,540
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Sonnet 5Claude Sonnet 5: 1,520
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Jul 24, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: 96%v
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Jul 24, 2026 · reference
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Sep 28, 2026 · reference
Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Jun 30, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: —

Claude Opus 5Claude Sonnet 5v = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Opus 5$2,000 /month
Claude Sonnet 5$1,200 /month

Claude Sonnet 5 saves you $800 a month at this usage, $9,600 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Opus 5Claude Sonnet 5
Made byAnthropicAnthropic
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 90.0Excellent · 77.4
Overall rank#4 of 67#20 of 67
Input price$5.00 per 1M$3.00 per 1M
Output price$25.00 per 1M$15.00 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens1,000,000 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesYes
Reads imagesYesYes
Model IDclaude-opus-5claude-sonnet-5

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-opus-5", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "claude-sonnet-5", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Opus 5 or Claude Sonnet 5 better?

Claude Opus 5 grades 90.0 against 77.4 for Claude Sonnet 5, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Claude Sonnet 5?

Claude Sonnet 5: $3.00 in and $15.00 out per million tokens, against $5.00 and $25.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Neither: both take 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), SWE-bench, Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.