Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Anthropic · Anthropic · catalog 2026-09-14

Trade-off: Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) is cheaper ($1.54 vs $3.85/M); Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) scores higher on intelligence (29.1 vs 28.9).
Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning)Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)
Speed (tok/s)44.7 measured57.5 measured
Blended $/M$3.85 derived$1.54 derived
Intelligence index29.1 measured28.9 measured
TTFT (ms)1488 measured114 measured
Context——
Coding indexnot measured for both
Agentic indexnot measured for both

Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) card · Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) card · 3D observatory

Verdicts use price×intelligence dominance only, and only where both sides are measured; null cells stay null with their provenance (em-dash = not in catalog). Percentile-free by design — this page compares two models, not the field. Generated page — do not hand-edit.