At standard pricing, Sonnet 5 costs $2.29 per Intelligence Index task—about 2x what Sonnet 4.6 costs and roughly 15% more than Opus 4.8—because it uses more tokens per task despite a lower per-token price.

Artificial Analysis calculated that Sonnet 5's higher token usage per task makes it cost more in practice than even Opus 4.8—$2.29 per Intelligence Index task, roughly 2x Sonnet 4.6's cost—undercutting the appeal of its lower sticker price. ✦ AI generated

Artificial Analysis · Latent Space · 2026-07-01 · original ↗

at standard pricing, Sonnet 5 cost $2.29 per Intelligence Index task, about 2x Sonnet 4.6 and ~15% more than Opus 4.8, despite lower per-token price, because of higher token usage

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