# Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)

Provider: anthropic  
Category: llm  
Model ID: `anthropic/claude-sonnet-5:batch`

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max,...

## Specs

- Context length: 1000000 tokens
- Max output: 128000 tokens
- Modalities: text, image, file
- Released: 2026-06-30

## Pricing

- Input: $1.00 per million tokens
- Output: $5.00 per million tokens

## Verdict

Claude Sonnet 5 batch delivers the same reasoning and multimodal capabilities as the real-time version at 50% lower cost, trading immediate responses for 24-hour processing windows. Best for teams running regular analysis jobs—document processing pipelines, bulk content moderation, overnight research synthesis—where latency doesn't matter but budget does. If you need answers in seconds, use the real-time API; if you can wait until morning, batch cuts your bill in half.

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Last verified: 2026-09-04T02:00:56.012Z  
Canonical URL: https://switchy.build/directory/models/claude-sonnet-5-batch