AnalysisAI ModelsJuly 1, 2026
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses

Sonnet 5 costs $3/$15 per million tokens, cheaper than Opus and Fable. It is faster and more robust in agentic scenarios, but not a daily driver for most users. Anthropic used some help from Mythos in training.
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