AnalysisAI ModelsJuly 1, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5: Not Frontier But Has Its Uses

Sonnet 5 is priced at $3/$15 per million tokens, cheaper than Opus 4.8 ($5/$25) and Fable 5 ($10/$50). It is faster than Opus and more robust in some agentic scenarios, but lacks frontier-level capabilities for most tasks.

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