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Claude Sonnet 4vsSonar
Claude Sonnet 4 and Sonar do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Sonar is 9x cheaper per token. Claude Sonnet 4 has the larger context window (200K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Sonar
9x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 4
200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Perplexity
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic · released 2025-05-22
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 4 only Claude Sonnet 4 · 1 only Sonar| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Sonar | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only Claude Sonnet 4 reports · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2024 (no extended thinking) | 33.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 71.1% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Sonar reports · 1 | ||||
| SimpleQA F-score | not reported | 77.3% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 4 minus Sonar in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 4 | Sonar | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 128K tokens | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Max output | 64K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $1 ↗ | Sonar |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $1 ↗ | Sonar |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $2 | Sonar |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2025-01-21 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 1 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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