Claude Sonnet 5.5
Provider status: active · Identity verified 2026-10-08 · Official catalog
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AI extraction with a second evidence validation pass. These dates apply to the listed fields.
- Input token price · 2026-10-08 · Source
- Output token price · 2026-10-08 · Source
- API access · 2026-10-08 · Source
- identity · 2026-10-08 · Source
- Work with long documents · 2026-10-06 · Source
- Use extended reasoning · 2026-10-06 · Source
- Understand images · 2026-10-06 · Source
- Call tools and functions · 2026-10-06 · Source
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The facts
- Version
- 5.5
- Price
- $2 input / $10 output per million tokens. API usage. Tokens are pieces of text sent to or generated by the model. This is not a chat subscription.
- API
✓Supported - Open weights
?Not verified - Commercial use
- unknown
- Long context
✓Supported 1M token context window
Source for Long context (opens in a new tab)- Tool use
✓Supported Tool use supported; forced tool use and between_tools thinking control documented
Source for Tool use (opens in a new tab)- Vision input
✓Supported Input supports text and images
Source for Vision input (opens in a new tab)- Extended thinking
✓Supported Adaptive thinking on by default, default effort high
Source for Extended thinking (opens in a new tab)
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Quality evidence.
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