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Anthropic Proprietary Released Sep 28, 2026 Updated

Claude Sonnet 5.5

ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.

Model summary

  • Text #42 / 416

    507 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes only

  • Vision #43 / 167

    484 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes only

  • Coding #2 / 147

    636 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 628, tests 641

  • Agents #2 / 53

    599 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 569, tests 634

  • Price per 1M tokens

    In $2.00· Out $10.00

    $2.00

    Input · median coding model $0.75

Summary

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's model, released Sep 28, 2026. It's ranked in 4 categories and does best at coding: #2 of 147, with a ToolsGuide Score of 636 against a median of 316.

It also ranks #2 of 53 for agents (599), #42 of 416 for text (507), #43 of 167 for vision (484).

Its text and vision score uses votes only, because it has published fewer than two of the tests used for those categories.

It costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens, about 2.7× the median coding model ($0.75).

It has published results on 47 tests and has the top score on 24 of them, including Terminal-Bench 4.0 and HealthBench Professional.

Specifications

Creator
Anthropic
Licence
Proprietary
Released
Sep 28, 2026
Context window
1M tokens
Input price
$2.00 / 1M
Output price
$10.00 / 1M
Tests reported
47
Settings ranked
claude-sonnet-5.5-xhigh, Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max)

Model comparison

Against the ten best coding models.

Coding score

ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better

Agents score

ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better

Input price

USD per 1M input tokens · Lower is better

Leaderboards

Where Claude Sonnet 5.5 sits among the top 20 in each category.

Text

#42 of 416 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full text leaderboard →

Vision

#43 of 167 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full vision leaderboard →

Coding

#2 of 147 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full coding leaderboard →

Agents

#2 of 53 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full agents leaderboard →

By task

Scored from votes on each kind of prompt alone, on the same 1,000-point scale.

Score against price

Coding · the 10 priced models ranked closest · up and to the left is better value

Against its nearest rivals

Text prompts by kind · ToolsGuide Score from votes · hover for values

Text

claude-sonnet-5.5-xhigh · hover a bar for its rank

Vision

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh) · hover a bar for its rank

Coding

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh) · hover a bar for its rank

Test results

Every test Claude Sonnet 5.5 has a published result on, out of 100%, with its rank among the models that took it.

  • SWE-Bench Pro

    #2 / 61

    Harder, longer software engineering tasks from real codebases.

    81.3%

    Self-reported · In the coding score

  • DeepSWE 1.1

    #17 / 50

    DeepSWE 1.1 evaluates software engineering agents using the mini-swe-agent harness.

    71.0%

    Self-reported · In the coding score

  • SWE-bench Multilingual

    #2 / 49

    A multilingual benchmark for issue resolving in software engineering that covers Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust, C, and C++. Contains 1,632 high-quality instances carefully annotated from 2,456 candidates by 68 expert annotators, designed to evaluate Large Language Models across diverse software ecosystems beyond Python.

    90.3%

    Self-reported

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0

    #1 / 28

    Terminal-Bench 4.0 evaluates AI agents on real-world work in terminal and command-line containerized environments across 66 tasks, with emphasis on science-adjacent and frontier engineering problems. Relative to earlier Terminal-Bench releases, 4.0 increases timeouts and adaptively raises RAM/CPU on selected tasks to reduce harness and resource confounds.

    70.6%

    Self-reported · In the coding score· In the agents score

  • AutomationBench

    #8 / 24

    AutomationBench is a tool-use benchmark that evaluates AI agents on automating real-world workflows, testing their ability to orchestrate tools and complete multi-step automation tasks.

    44.7%

    Self-reported · In the agents score

  • FrontierCode 1.1

    #5 / 23

    FrontierCode 1.1 evaluates whether coding-agent changes are mergeable, using unit tests, maintainer-defined rubrics, and verifiers. Runs flagged for unfair internet use receive a zero score.

    52.1%

    Self-reported · In the coding score

  • HealthBench Professional

    #1 / 19

    HealthBench Professional evaluates model capability and safety for clinician use cases using real clinician-style chats and physician-authored grading rubrics.

    69.2%

    Self-reported

  • Program Bench

    #3 / 18

    Program Bench evaluates code-generation agents by asking them to recreate a program's behavior from only a compiled binary and documentation. It spans 200 tasks from small CLI tools to large systems such as FFmpeg and SQLite, with submissions judged against more than 248,000 fuzz-generated behavioral tests.

    79.7%

    Self-reported · In the coding score

  • Legal Agent Benchmark

    #2 / 15

    The Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB) is Harvey's open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on complex, long-horizon legal work. Tasks are scored under an all-pass standard against expert-curated rubrics, where a task passes only if every required rubric criterion (facts, conclusions, citations, structure, and analytical moves) passes.

    11.7%

    Self-reported

  • HealthBench

    #1 / 14

    An open-source benchmark for measuring performance and safety of large language models in healthcare, consisting of 5,000 multi-turn conversations evaluated by 262 physicians using 48,562 unique rubric criteria across health contexts and behavioral dimensions

    65.4%

    Self-reported

  • Humanity's Last Exam (no tools, text-only)

    #2 / 14

    Text-only Humanity's Last Exam variant evaluated without tool use.

    56.9%

    Self-reported

  • OfficeQA Pro

    #6 / 12

    OfficeQA Pro evaluates AI models on professional knowledge-work questions and tasks drawn from real office workflows, including document analysis, spreadsheet reasoning, and information synthesis across business domains.

    65.6%

    Self-reported

  • Global-MMLU

    #2 / 8

    A comprehensive multilingual benchmark covering 42 languages that addresses cultural and linguistic biases in evaluation, with improved translation quality and culturally sensitive question subsets.

    92.1%

    Self-reported

  • BenchCAD

    #1 / 7

    BenchCAD is a benchmark for programmatic CAD reasoning built from 17,900 execution-verified CadQuery programs spanning 106 industrial part families, roughly half anchored to real ISO, DIN, EN, ASME, and IEC specification tables. It decomposes CAD capability into matched tasks; the Vision2Code task requires models to generate CadQuery code from multi-view renders, scored by voxel IoU against the reference geometry.

    74.7%

    Self-reported

  • BenchCAD (with Python tool)

    #1 / 7

    BenchCAD variant evaluated with access to a Python tool for programmatic CAD reasoning.

    96.3%

    Self-reported

  • BioMysteryBench

    #3 / 7

    BioMysteryBench evaluates a model's ability to reason through challenging molecular biology problems, reporting performance on a hard subset and on the subset of problems solved by human experts.

    89.2%

    Self-reported

  • SWE-Bench Multimodal

    #3 / 7

    SWE-Bench Multimodal extends SWE-Bench to evaluate language models on software engineering tasks that involve visual inputs such as screenshots, UI mockups, and diagrams alongside code understanding.

    54.3%

    Self-reported

  • Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

    #2 / 7

    Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 is a Stanford-led community benchmark of 70 tasks drawn from scientific research workflows across the life, physical, earth, mathematical, and engineering sciences. Tasks are authored and reviewed by scientists and researchers; scores are typically reported as accuracy with relatively large standard error due to strongly bimodal per-task outcomes.

    59.9%

    Self-reported

  • Chartography

    #1 / 6

    Chartography evaluates professional chart understanding with 100 expert-written tasks drawn from real charts across science, engineering, finance, manufacturing, supply chain, and healthcare.

    90.2%

    Self-reported

  • OSWorld 2.1 (partial)

    #1 / 6

    Partial-credit computer-use score on OSWorld 2.1, as reported in the Claude Sonnet 5.5 release. Separate from OSWorld 2.0 and strict completion scores.

    80.1%

    Self-reported

  • OSWorld 2.1 (strict)

    #1 / 6

    Strict pass rate on OSWorld 2.1: fraction of tasks where every graded checkpoint is satisfied. Separate from the OSWorld 2.1 partial-credit score and from OSWorld 2.0.

    43.5%

    Self-reported

  • AA-Briefcase v1.1

    #2 / 5

    AA-Briefcase v1.1 evaluates multi-hour professional office work and reports Elo scores. Kept separate from unversioned AA-Briefcase results.

    60.4%

    Self-reported

  • ArXivMath

    #2 / 5

    ArXivMath is a final-answer benchmark of research-level mathematics maintained by MathArena. Problems are extracted monthly from recent arXiv paper abstracts, then filtered through automated and manual checks to ensure they are self-contained, non-trivial, and verifiable. Because problems are drawn from active research, the benchmark is more realistic and more closely connected to mathematical research than contest or olympiad benchmarks.

    86.8%

    Self-reported

  • FrontierSWE V2

    #2 / 5

    FrontierSWE V2 evaluates agents on open-ended technical projects and reports mean@5. Kept separate from FrontierSWE V1 dominance-score results, which are not comparable.

    61.9%

    Self-reported

  • GDPval-AA 2.1

    #2 / 5

    Version 2.1 of the Artificial Analysis GDPval evaluation of professional knowledge work, reported as an Elo rating.

    61.5%

    Self-reported

  • Toolathlon-Verified

    #1 / 5

    Verified Toolathlon evaluation of agent tool-use capability, as reported in the MiMo-V2.6 release.

    77.8%

    Self-reported

  • Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)

    #1 / 4

    Full multimodal Humanity's Last Exam evaluated with tool use enabled, distinct from its text-only subset.

    64.5%

    Self-reported

  • Chartography (no tools)

    #2 / 3

    Chartography visual chart recognition evaluated without tools, distinct from tool-assisted results.

    61.6%

    Self-reported

  • CursorBench 4.0

    #2 / 3

    CursorBench 4.0 evaluates coding agents on long-horizon coding tasks from real Cursor sessions. Version 4.0 adds longer-horizon tasks; scores are not comparable with CursorBench 3.2.

    55.5%

    Self-reported

  • FrontierCode 1.1 (Extended)

    #1 / 3

    FrontierCode 1.1 Extended subset: agentic coding tasks graded for mergeable patches, reported separately from the Main subset.

    64.4%

    Self-reported

  • LatchBio SingleCellBench

    #2 / 3

    LatchBio SingleCellBench tests analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data across problems spanning standard workflows such as labeling cell types, finding differentially expressed genes, and correcting batch effects.

    59.1%

    Self-reported

  • LatchBio SpatialBench Verified

    #1 / 3

    LatchBio SpatialBench Verified tests analysis of spatial transcriptomics data across externally validated problems, requiring the model to answer biological questions about the sample from analysis results.

    72.5%

    Self-reported

  • MILU

    #2 / 3

    Multi-task Indic Language Understanding (MILU) covers 11 languages—10 Indic languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu) and English—and tests culturally grounded knowledge comprehension.

    91.6%

    Self-reported

  • OfficeQA

    #2 / 3

    OfficeQA is a Databricks public benchmark that evaluates end-to-end grounded reasoning over a large corpus of historical U.S. Treasury Bulletin documents. Models must locate relevant tables across the corpus and perform precise numerical reasoning over them.

    76.9%

    Self-reported

  • Biomedical image analysis

    #1 / 2

    Biomedical image analysis: quantitative analyses of biomedical images using domain tools.

    72.2%

    Unverified

  • HealthBench Professional (raw)

    #1 / 2

    HealthBench Professional score before length adjustment. Distinct from the length-adjusted HealthBench Professional catalog metric.

    77.1%

    Unverified

  • Medicinal Chemistry (ADME)

    #1 / 2

    Medicinal chemistry ADME evaluation: 504 questions asking which real drug-discovery compounds have the highest or lowest measured absorption, distribution, or metabolism-related property.

    65.3%

    Unverified

  • Morphology-to-molecule matching

    #2 / 2

    Axiom Bio morphology-to-molecule matching: match multi-channel cell imaging data from a human liver in-vitro assay to shuffled molecule-dose perturbations.

    25.0%

    Unverified

  • PhysicianBench

    #1 / 2

    PhysicianBench is a public benchmark of 100 physician tasks carried out in an electronic health record (EHR), measuring agentic clinical task completion.

    63.2%

    Unverified

  • Protein Design — Library Ranking

    #1 / 2

    Protein design Library Ranking task: prioritize protein designs for experimental testing.

    54.8%

    Unverified

  • Protein Design — Sequence Generation

    #1 / 2

    Protein design Sequence Generation task: generate novel protein sequences conditioned on design constraints.

    51.0%

    Unverified

  • Protocols Troubleshooting

    #1 / 2

    Molecular biology Protocols Troubleshooting variant: detect and fix issues in laboratory protocols.

    67.3%

    Unverified

  • Protocols Understanding (V2)

    #1 / 2

    Protocols Understanding (V2) (Benchling): given a real laboratory protocol, answer a practical question about applying or adapting it.

    66.6%

    Unverified

  • ArXivMath (with tools)

    #1 / 1

    ArXivMath final-answer accuracy with a code-execution sandbox (no internet), distinct from the without-tools setting.

    95.2%

    Unverified

  • BioMysteryBench (Human Difficult)

    #1 / 1

    BioMysteryBench Human Difficult subset: problems that human experts did not solve, separate from the Human Solvable subset.

    44.7%

    Unverified

  • De novo protein binder design

    #1 / 1

    De novo protein binder design: for each of 15 protein targets, design a set of 30 miniprotein binders within a fixed 24-hour wall-clock budget given the target structure.

    82.3%

    Unverified

  • HealthBench (raw)

    #1 / 1

    HealthBench score before length adjustment. Distinct from the length-adjusted HealthBench catalog metric.

    69.4%

    Unverified