Cost per task
#19 cheapest of 50$0.15at max
Anthropic · released 2026-09-28
Measured on 174 benchmarks across 5 reasoning efforts.
54.6
#4 of 68 models · best at max
Bars show where Sonnet 5.5 sits among the 68 ranked models on each benchmark (right is best); the tick is the field median.
$0.15at max
31 minat max
151 tok/sat max
4.7 minat max
285kat max
Time per task: Artificial Analysis · computed, not timed: output tokens per Intelligence Index task divided by output speed, without tool time. Method changed Nov 4, 2026.
$0.194 per 1M tokens at API prices$0.0029 on Claude Ultra
97.4% cache read · 0.05% fresh input · 2.13% cache write · 0.42% output
Measured from T3 Code usage in Claude Code, Oct 30 to Nov 5, high confidence. One app’s users, not everyone’s. $0.197 at the standard 97 / 2.5 / 0.5 mix.
agentic
Leader: Gemini 4 Carbon · 77.8%
agentic
Leader: this model · 1813
reasoning
Leader: GPT-6 Astra · 72.0%
coding
Leader: Opus 5.5 · 46.4%
economics
Leader: Muse Wonder Full · 32.6%
reasoning
Leader: Gemini 4 Carbon · 69.1%
knowledge
Leader: Fable 5.1 · 68.4%
knowledge
Leader: Gemini 4 Carbon · 95.8%
reasoning
Leader: Gemini 4 Carbon · 64.8%
coding
Leader: Kimi K3.1 · 67.2%