Claude Sonnet 5
Fast and capable across chat, code and multi-step work. A good default for everyday use.
Superseded by Claude Sonnet 5.5 →
Modalities
Context window
1,000,000 tokens, ≈ 750,000 words · about 3,000 pages
Max output
128,000 tokens, ≈ 96,000 words in a single answer
Knowledge cutoff
January 2026
Reasoning effort
Default: High
Providers
Files you can attach
- ImagesJPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP
- DocumentsPDF
- Text and codeTXT, MD, CSV, TSV, RPT, LOG, PY, TS, TSX, JS, JSX, CS, GO, JAVA, KT, SWIFT, CPP, C, H, PHP, RB, SQL, SH, PS1, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JSON, YAML, YML, XML, INI
Tools
- Web searchSupported
- Code interpreterSupported
Features
- StreamingSupported
- Function callingSupported
- Structured outputsSupported
- Fine-tuningNot supported