Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
o4-mini with reasoning effort locked to high for maximum accuracy.
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 78.6). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
o4-mini (High) has a lower blended cost. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output. o4-mini (High): $1.10 input / $4.40 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 5 supports 1M tokens vs o4-mini (High) at 200K tokens.
Yes, both Claude Sonnet 5 and o4-mini (High) support vision/image input.
Claude Sonnet 5 and o4-mini (High) have similar overall capabilities. The main differences lie in pricing, context window size, and provider-specific strengths. Use this comparison page to review all metrics side by side.
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 o4-mini (High) for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.