Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5, Closing the Gap With Opus
July 1, 2026Provided by Utku Ege Tuluk
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026 — its “most agentic Sonnet model yet,” bringing performance close to the flagship Opus 4.8 while running at a fraction of the cost. The mid-tier model posts large gains over Sonnet 4.6 in coding, reasoning, tool use, and knowledge work, and ships with introductory pricing of […]
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