Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort)

Anthropic · Anthropic · catalog 2026-09-14

Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort) beats Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort): cheaper ($1.54 vs $3.85/M) and at least as smart (index 32 vs 31.9).
Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort)
Speed (tok/s)39.1 measured58.2 measured
Blended $/M$3.85 derived$1.54 derived
Intelligence index31.9 measured32 measured
TTFT (ms)2397 measured161 measured
Context——
Coding indexnot measured for both
Agentic indexnot measured for both

Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) card · Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort) card · 3D observatory

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