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Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5

Built by Anthropic · US · United States · First tracked 30 Jun 2026 · Pricing verified 26 Aug 2026
#16Global rank
1.02%Routed share
▼ 2places downThis week
9 weeks rankedStreak
#11Peak rank
PremiumPrice position
Model economics
Input
$1.00
/ 1M tokens
Output
$5.00
/ 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.100
/ 1M tokens
Free tier
on OpenRouter
Context window
1M
tokens
Weights
Proprietary
license basis

Live per-token pricing via OpenRouter, verified 26 Aug 2026. Batch and long-context tiers are not published in the feed, so they are omitted rather than estimated.

What would it cost you?
Estimated monthly cost
$0
Input (uncached)$0
Cached input$0
Output$0
$0 per completed task

An estimate from published per-token pricing and your assumptions. Actual costs vary by provider and usage tier.

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Price and adoption

Routed-token share over time. A price line joins it as real changes are recorded.

0%1%2% 1.02% 1 Jul 2026: 0.27%8 Jul 2026: 1.76%15 Jul 2026: 1.62%22 Jul 2026: 1.88%29 Jul 2026: 1.76%5 Aug 2026: 1.68%12 Aug 2026: 1.46%19 Aug 2026: 1.34%26 Aug 2026: 1.02% 1 Jul8 Jul15 Jul22 Jul29 Jul5 Aug12 Aug19 Aug26 Aug
All 9 tracked weeks · 1 Jul to 26 Aug. Longer periods open as the record grows.
Price-to-adoption position
Under pressure

Premium · adoption falling. Observed relationship, not proof of causation.

Speed & reliability

Availability monitoring is derived from OpenRouter provider uptime; it refreshes with the daily build. Latency and throughput are not exposed by the data source, so we do not report them rather than estimate.

Capabilities
Context window1M
Reasoning Supported
Tool calling Supported
Structured output Supported
Image input Supported
Audio input Not supported
Video input Not supported
Open weights Proprietary
API availability Yes
Commercial licenseVerify terms with the provider
At a glance
Observed by yellow3
Current rank
#16
Peak rank
#11
Routed share
1.02%
Peak share
1.88%
Weeks ranked
9
First tracked
30 Jun 2026
Region of origin
US · United States
Model facts
Provider
Anthropic
Model family
Not publicly disclosed
Release date
Not publicly disclosed
Type
Multimodal (text + image)
Modalities
text, image, file
Context window
1M tokens
Weights
Proprietary
License
Not publicly disclosed
Why it is moving
Observed data

In the week ending 26 Aug 2026, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 fell 2 places to #16 with 1.02% of routed tokens and a peak rank of #11. Over 9 tracked weeks its routed share has moved from 0.27% to 1.02% (+0.75 pp).

yellow3 analysis

A sourced weekly interpretation of what is driving this model's routing is added as the record accumulates. yellow3 does not publish a reason for movement unless the routed-traffic data or a cited source supports it.

Rank history
Week endingRankRouted shareΔ shareMovementRegion rankStatus
26 Aug 2026#161.02%-0.33▼ 2places down#7ranked
19 Aug 2026#141.34%-0.12▲ 1places up#6ranked
12 Aug 2026#151.46%-0.22▲ 1places up#6ranked
5 Aug 2026#161.68%-0.07▼ 5places down#6ranked
29 Jul 2026#111.76%-0.13▲ 1places up#2ranked
22 Jul 2026#121.88%+0.27▲ 1places up#4ranked
15 Jul 2026#131.62%-0.14▲ 2places up#6ranked
8 Jul 2026#151.76%+1.49▲ 29places up#7ranked
1 Jul 2026#440.27%NEW#25NEW
Price history
DateInput / 1MOutput / 1MChangeSource
6 Aug 2026$1.00$5.00▼ 50%OpenRouter listed price
31 Jul 2026$2.00$10.00▲ 100%OpenRouter listed price
28 Jul 2026$1.00$5.00▼ 50%OpenRouter listed price
12 Jul 2026$2.00$10.00OpenRouter listed price
Milestones
  • 30 Jun 2026First trackedDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
  • 8 Jul 2026Entered top 20Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
  • 8 Jul 2026Biggest weekly rise +29 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
  • 22 Jul 2026Peak routed share 1.88%Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
  • 5 Aug 2026Biggest weekly fall -5 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
Sources & methodology

Region reflects where the model's developer is headquartered. Figures are OpenRouter routing traffic, aggregated over a trailing seven days - developer routing behaviour, not the whole market.

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