Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 released — OSWorld 61.4% and SWE-bench Verified 77.2% (company-reported), with pricing unchanged at $3/$15 per 1M tokens

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Anthropic said it observed the model maintaining focus for more than 30 hours on complex multi-step tasks; released under ASL-3 protections together with the Claude Agent SDK

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Officialanthropic.comhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5

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On the map — ⑥ Reasoning Models line

  1. Previous stopAnthropic releases Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4
  2. This recordClaude Sonnet 4.5
  3. Next stopClaude Haiku 4.5
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In the model family tree — Claude family · 20 versions

  1. Earlier versionClaude Opus 4.1
  2. This recordClaude Sonnet 4.5
  3. Later versionClaude Haiku 4.5
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