# Claude Sonnet 5 Arrives with Adaptive Thinking, Introductory $2/$10 Pricing

> Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, with adaptive thinking enabled by default and performance approaching Opus 4.8 while costing $2/$10 per million input/output tokens (introductory pricing through August 31, then $3/$15). The model supports the full 1M token context window, 128k max output, and all existing tool and platform features. Sonnet 5 is the default for Free and Pro plans, available to Max/Team/Enterprise, and accessible via the Claude Platform API. The price-to-performance ratio makes it the obvious choice for agentic coding workflows and autonomous reasoning tasks where Opus felt overkill but Sonnet 4.6 fell short. Early adoption suggests it is becoming the workhorse model for the year.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Anthropic · Published Wednesday, July 8, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, with adaptive thinking enabled by default and performance approaching Opus 4.8 while costing $2/$10 per million input/output tokens (introductory pricing through August 31, then $3/$15). The model supports the full 1M token context window, 128k max output, and all existing tool and platform features. Sonnet 5 is the default for Free and Pro plans, available to Max/Team/Enterprise, and accessible via the Claude Platform API. The price-to-performance ratio makes it the obvious choice for agentic coding workflows and autonomous reasoning tasks where Opus felt overkill but Sonnet 4.6 fell short. Early adoption suggests it is becoming the workhorse model for the year.

## Source

[Read the full story at Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5)

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