Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 provider comparison

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5

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,...

Endpoints:: 7
Context:: 1M
Input:: text, image, file
Output:: text

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At a glance

Comparison winners

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens using the latest published median speed data.

Best cost/speed trade-off

Google Vertexgoogle-vertex/global

$4.6667 / 1M tokens

10.24 s estimated response

Cheapest

Azureazure/us-east-2

$4.6667 / 1M tokens

$0.007 for the sample request

Fastest

Google Vertexgoogle-vertex/global

10.24 s estimated response

$4.6667 / 1M tokens

Visual comparison

Price and performance charts

Compare published endpoint pricing and estimated response time visually.

Effective price by endpoint

USD per 1 million tokens for input and output. Lower is better.

Azure has the lowest estimated cost for 1,000 input and 500 output tokens at $0.007.

Estimated cost vs. response time

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens. Cost is shown in USD per 1 million tokens. Lower and further left is better; the single best cost/speed trade-off appears at full opacity.

6 providers have complete pricing and speed data. Google Vertex is closest to the ideal combination of lowest cost and fastest response.

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Provider endpoints

Prompt and completion prices are effective USD per token as published by OpenRouter. Missing speed data never removes an endpoint.

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Endpoint comparison for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5
Provider / route	Current pricing ↗	Speed measurements	Endpoint details
Provider / route Azure`azure/us-east-2` Cheapest	Current pricing Input price $2 / 1M tokens Output price $10 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.007	Speed measurements 500-token response 11.38 s Response starts 4.24 s Output speed 70.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.50% Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 11 parameters include_reasoning, max_completion_tokens, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity
Provider / route Anthropic`anthropic`	Current pricing Input price $2 / 1M tokens Output price $10 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.007	Speed measurements 500-token response 12.13 s Response starts 3.20 s Output speed 56.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 100.00% Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 10 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity
Provider / route Amazon Bedrock`amazon-bedrock/global`	Current pricing Input price $2 / 1M tokens Output price $10 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.007	Speed measurements 500-token response 11.99 s Response starts 3.06 s Output speed 56.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.84% Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 10 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity
Provider / route Google Vertex`google-vertex/global` FastestBest cost/speed trade-off	Current pricing Input price $2 / 1M tokens Output price $10 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.007	Speed measurements 500-token response 10.24 s Response starts 3.20 s Output speed 71.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.82% Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 9 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, tool_choice, tools, verbosity
Provider / route Amazon Bedrock`amazon-bedrock/claude-on-aws`	Current pricing Input price $2 / 1M tokens Output price $10 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.007	Speed measurements 500-token response 22.25 s Response starts 2.25 s Output speed 25.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.98% Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 10 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity
Provider / route Google Vertex`google-vertex/europe`	Current pricing Input price $2.2 / 1M tokens Output price $11 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.0077	Speed measurements 500-token response 24.80 s Response starts 0.99 s Output speed 21.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) Insufficient recent data Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 9 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, tool_choice, tools, verbosity
Provider / route Amazon Bedrock`amazon-bedrock/us-east-1`	Current pricing Input price $2.2 / 1M tokens Output price $11 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.0077	Speed measurements 500-token response Insufficient recent data Response starts Insufficient recent data Output speed Insufficient recent data	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) Insufficient recent data Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 10 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity

Endpoint data fetched Jul 15, 2026, 11:25 PM UTC.

Claude Sonnet 5 deployment guide

How to choose a Claude Sonnet 5 inference provider

Claude Sonnet 5 is indexed here as a text model by Anthropic, with 7 provider endpoints from Azure, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex. The comparison preserves each exact OpenRouter routing tag so pricing and performance observations can be connected to the route an application would actually request.

Match the endpoint to the workload

The model publishes a 1M-token context window. It accepts text, image, file input and returns text output. 11 distinct supported parameters appear across the listed routes. Confirm limits on the specific endpoint rather than assuming every host exposes the same configuration.

Compare the real request economics

Azure currently has the lowest estimated cost for the standard 1,000-input/500-output-token sample at $0.007. Input-heavy and output-heavy applications can produce a different result, so review both per-million-token prices in the endpoint table.

Balance response start and generation speed

Google Vertex currently has the shortest estimated 500-token response at 10.24 seconds. Google Vertex is the single endpoint closest to the current ideal cost/speed combination. Recent observations can change, so validate finalists with your own prompts.