Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking
Adds extended, step‑by‑step reasoning for tougher coding, planning, and multi‑tool tasks. Ideal for long‑horizon agent workflows, complex problem solving, and scenarios that benefit from explicit thinking traces.
- Reasoning
- Vision
- Native PDF input
- Tool Calling
- Structured Output
Added Sep 29, 2025
Pricing
Auto routing · per 1M tokens- Input
- $3.00
- Output
- $15.00
- Cache read
- $0.30
Specifications
- Context window
- 200K
- Max output
- 64K
- Avg output (7d)
- 2.6K tokens
- Longer than 95% of models
Benchmarks
Benchmarks
Sourced from Vectara.
Hallucination Rate
12.0%
Better than 27% of models compared
Factual Consistency
88.0%
Better than 27% of models compared
Answer Rate
95.6%
Better than 16% of models compared
Avg Summary Length
Average generated summary length
127.8
Last updated 2026-10-22 · Matched as anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
Vectara LeaderboardProviders
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