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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
Vendoranthropicanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score63.963.9
Input Price$2.00/M$1.00/M
Output Price$10.00/M$5.00/M
Context Window1,000,0001,000,000
Max Output128,000128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index63.063.0

Who wins by task?

TaskAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
SQL Generation 140 141
Code Completion 118 120
Code Documentation 135 136
Regex Writing 123 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 135
JSON Extraction 121 122
Bulk Data Labeling 118 120
Long-Document Summarization 146 147
Short-Form Summarization 116 118
Blog Post Writing 128 129

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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