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
Vision
#43 of 167 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Coding
#2 of 147 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Agents
#2 of 53 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
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
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 -
Claude Opus 5.5 (Max) -
GPT-6 Astra (Max)
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 / 61Harder, longer software engineering tasks from real codebases.
81.3%
Self-reported · In the coding score
DeepSWE 1.1
#17 / 50DeepSWE 1.1 evaluates software engineering agents using the mini-swe-agent harness.
71.0%
Self-reported · In the coding score
SWE-bench Multilingual
#2 / 49A 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 / 28Terminal-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 / 24AutomationBench 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 / 23FrontierCode 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 / 19HealthBench 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 / 18Program 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 / 15The 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 / 14An 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 / 14Text-only Humanity's Last Exam variant evaluated without tool use.
56.9%
Self-reported
OfficeQA Pro
#6 / 12OfficeQA 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 / 8A 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 / 7BenchCAD 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 / 7BenchCAD variant evaluated with access to a Python tool for programmatic CAD reasoning.
96.3%
Self-reported
BioMysteryBench
#3 / 7BioMysteryBench 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 / 7SWE-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 / 7Terminal-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 / 6Chartography 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 / 6Partial-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 / 6Strict 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 / 5AA-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 / 5ArXivMath 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 / 5FrontierSWE 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 / 5Version 2.1 of the Artificial Analysis GDPval evaluation of professional knowledge work, reported as an Elo rating.
61.5%
Self-reported
Toolathlon-Verified
#1 / 5Verified 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 / 4Full multimodal Humanity's Last Exam evaluated with tool use enabled, distinct from its text-only subset.
64.5%
Self-reported
Chartography (no tools)
#2 / 3Chartography visual chart recognition evaluated without tools, distinct from tool-assisted results.
61.6%
Self-reported
CursorBench 4.0
#2 / 3CursorBench 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 / 3FrontierCode 1.1 Extended subset: agentic coding tasks graded for mergeable patches, reported separately from the Main subset.
64.4%
Self-reported
LatchBio SingleCellBench
#2 / 3LatchBio 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 / 3LatchBio 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 / 3Multi-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 / 3OfficeQA 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 / 2Biomedical image analysis: quantitative analyses of biomedical images using domain tools.
72.2%
Unverified
HealthBench Professional (raw)
#1 / 2HealthBench Professional score before length adjustment. Distinct from the length-adjusted HealthBench Professional catalog metric.
77.1%
Unverified
Medicinal Chemistry (ADME)
#1 / 2Medicinal 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 / 2Axiom 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 / 2PhysicianBench 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 / 2Protein design Library Ranking task: prioritize protein designs for experimental testing.
54.8%
Unverified
Protein Design — Sequence Generation
#1 / 2Protein design Sequence Generation task: generate novel protein sequences conditioned on design constraints.
51.0%
Unverified
Protocols Troubleshooting
#1 / 2Molecular biology Protocols Troubleshooting variant: detect and fix issues in laboratory protocols.
67.3%
Unverified
Protocols Understanding (V2)
#1 / 2Protocols Understanding (V2) (Benchling): given a real laboratory protocol, answer a practical question about applying or adapting it.
66.6%
Unverified
ArXivMath (with tools)
#1 / 1ArXivMath final-answer accuracy with a code-execution sandbox (no internet), distinct from the without-tools setting.
95.2%
Unverified
BioMysteryBench (Human Difficult)
#1 / 1BioMysteryBench 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 / 1De 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 / 1HealthBench score before length adjustment. Distinct from the length-adjusted HealthBench catalog metric.
69.4%
Unverified