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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

Created Sep 29, 20251,000,000 context
Starting at $3/M input tokensStarting at $15/M output tokens

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with improvements across system design, code security, and specification adherence. The model is designed for extended autonomous operation, maintaining task continuity across sessions and providing fact-based progress tracking.

Sonnet 4.5 also introduces stronger agentic capabilities, including improved tool orchestration, speculative parallel execution, and more efficient context and memory management. With enhanced context tracking and awareness of token usage across tool calls, it is particularly well-suited for multi-context and long-running workflows. Use cases span software engineering, cybersecurity, financial analysis, research agents, and other domains requiring sustained reasoning and tool use.

Providers for Claude Sonnet 4.5

OpenRouter routes requests to the best providers that are able to handle your prompt size and parameters, with fallbacks to maximize uptime.

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Total usage per day on OpenRouter

Prompt
22.6B
Completion
434M
Reasoning
11.7M

Prompt tokens measure input size. Reasoning tokens show internal thinking before a response. Completion tokens reflect total output length.

Uptime stats for Claude Sonnet 4.5

Uptime stats for Claude Sonnet 4.5 across all providers

Sample code and API for Claude Sonnet 4.5

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 400+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.