Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
Cost-efficient reasoning model for STEM tasks.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Both Claude Sonnet 5 and o3-mini are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
o3-mini has a lower blended cost. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output. o3-mini: $1.10 input / $4.40 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 5 supports 1M tokens vs o3-mini at 200K tokens.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision/image input, but o3-mini does not.
Key differences: only Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision input. 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 o3-mini for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.