Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
OpenAI's original frontier reasoning model with deep thinking.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 vs 75.2). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a lower blended cost. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output. o1: $15.00 input / $60.00 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 5 supports 1M tokens vs o1 at 200K tokens.
Yes, both Claude Sonnet 5 and o1 support vision/image input.
Key differences: Claude Sonnet 5 is significantly cheaper. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Sonnet 5 and o1 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.