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Claude Sonnet 4.5

by Anthropic · released Sep 29, 2025 · 1 provider
Model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5:batch
VisionReasoningTool callingStructured outputs1M context

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows.

MODEL PRICING

Standard pricing

Run this model at its standard rate. Cheap mode currently has no separate discount.

Input tokens$1.575per 1 million tokens
Output tokens$7.875per 1 million tokens

API routing ceilings, including your 5% Free-plan fee. Included usage applies first, then prepaid credits. Cached tokens and tools can have separate charges.

Context
1M
tokens
Max output
64k
tokens per reply
Input
$3
provider baseline / 1M; fee applies
Output
$15
provider baseline / 1M; fee applies

Choose how to use Claude Sonnet 4.5

Playground

Try prompts in your browser, create an agent, and see the cost of each reply. Your selected model carries into setup.

Model capabilities below describe the underlying model. Available playground features depend on its provider.

API

Connect your app with a Gizmo API key. Choose fastest or cheapest, stream text responses, and inspect timing, tokens, and charges in request logs.

A current API route is listed for this exact model. Gateway configuration is required for live calls.

Provider price + a transparent platform fee

RateProvider baselineFree plan · 5% feePaid plan · 4% fee
Input / 1M tokens$3$3.15$3.12
Output / 1M tokens$15$15.75$15.6
API input / 1M tokens$1.5$1.575$1.56
API output / 1M tokens$7.5$7.875$7.8

Legacy chat image rates use the catalog baseline. The dedicated image playground shows separate estimates and settles the provider’s metered usage. API rates are current routing ceilings; final API charges use provider-reported cost plus your fee. Cheapest routing compares eligible OpenRouter and Cheaper Inference rates for the same model; savings are not guaranteed. Cached input or other provider charges may differ. Compare all model rates and verified discounts →

How your plan pays for usage

API and playground share one included allowance. Usage including the fee draws from that allowance first, then your prepaid credits. Plans bill monthly; included usage resets weekly: Free $1, Starter $5, Growth $25, Scale $50.

A $1 provider charge becomes $1.05 on Free or $1.04 on a paid plan before included usage is applied. Plan eligibility still applies in the playground.

Free models and limits

Zero-cost models stay $0, including the fee, and do not consume your dollar allowance. Free accounts can make 1,000 free-model API requests per calendar month, resetting in UTC. Admitted requests count even if the provider fails.

Free includes 20 API requests/minute and 6 playground messages/minute. Paid plans raise these limits. See plan limits.

Before a text API request, Gizmo temporarily reserves included usage and, if necessary, prepaid credit for the model’s full context plus your maximum output. Image jobs reserve twice their displayed estimate. Unused funds return after metering. This hold can exceed the final charge; unconfirmed usage remains marked pending.

Overview

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with improvements across system design, code security, and specification adherence. The model is designed for extended autonomous operation, maintaining task continuity across sessions and providing fact-based progress tracking.

Sonnet 4.5 also introduces stronger agentic capabilities, including improved tool orchestration, speculative parallel execution, and more efficient context and memory management. With enhanced context tracking and awareness of token usage across tool calls, it is particularly well-suited for multi-context and long-running workflows. Use cases span software engineering, cybersecurity, financial analysis, research agents, and other domains requiring sustained reasoning and tool use.

Benchmarks

Artificial Analysis indices independent, 0–100

Intelligence
20.7
Coding
52.1
Agentic
15.8

Design Arena head-to-head, human-voted

CategoryEloWin rateRank
ASCII art120756.1%#22
Mobile apps (agent)113452.9%#31
Full-stack agents (agent)105043.7%#35
Web apps (agent)105343.2%#37
SVG111352.2%#56
Code118451.5%#62
3D scenes115851%#65
Game dev116951.1%#65

Capabilities

Input
✍️ Text🖼️ Images📄 Files
Output
✍️ Text
✓ Tool calling✓ Structured outputs✓ JSON mode✓ Reasoning✓ Reasoning traces✓ Stop sequences

Reasoning is available.

Sampling controls: temperature, top_p, top_k, max_tokens. Defaults: top_k null, top_p 1, temperature 1, presence_penalty null, frequency_penalty null, repetition_penalty null.

Requests pass through the provider’s content moderation.

Pricing on Gizmo

These are provider baseline rates before Gizmo’s 5% Free-plan or 4% paid-plan fee. Your included usage covers charges first; overage uses prepaid credits. See the fee-inclusive comparison above.

Provider baseline rates

Input
$3 / 1M
Cached input
$0.15 / 1M
Cache write
$1.88 / 1M
Output
$15 / 1M
Web search
$0.01 / call

Examples before the platform fee

Typical chat turn
$0.0135 2k in · 500 out
$1 of input
≈ 333k tokens
$1 of output
≈ 67k tokens
Full context, once
$3.00
Paid plans. This model is above the free tier’s price ceiling. Starter ($20/mo) covers $5 of usage weekly, Growth $25, Scale $50; every paid plan includes $25 in bonus credits.

Providers and pricing

One way to run Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Gizmo.

ProviderRouteInput / 1MOutput / 1MContextUptime 24h
AnthropicLowest priceOpenRouter$1.50$7.501M—

Rates are each provider’s, per million tokens, before Gizmo’s 5% (Free) or 4% (paid) fee. “Cheapest” routing starts at the top of this list; “Fastest” starts with the model’s maker.

Run Claude Sonnet 4.5 in under a minute

1

Create your account

Sign up with just an email. Start on the free tier with no card, or pick a paid plan for a bigger weekly allowance and $25 in bonus credits.

2

Your agent is ready

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is preselected as the brain of your first agent. Give it a name and a system prompt, or keep the defaults.

3

Chat, research, create

Live web research and image generation are built in. Every reply shows what it cost, and you can switch models anytime.

Sources. OpenRouter · Artificial Analysis · Design Arena · Anthropic documentation. Verified Oct 15, 2026. Baseline prices are the provider’s list prices at sync time. Gizmo adds a 5% fee on Free or 4% on paid plans; included usage is applied before overage credits.