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Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Announced Sep 28, 2026

Faster everyday coding and documents

01

What could it do?

Anthropic reported improvements in focused tasks, bug fixes and document creation.

02

What changed?

A faster and lower cost update to Sonnet 5.

WHY IT MATTERED

Expanded the Claude 5.5 family beyond Opus.

03

Where it fell short

The launch describes typical cost changes, not a saving guaranteed for every task.

Sources checked Oct 7, 2026

Release facts were checked against the sources below. Performance claims belong to the developers; we have not independently tested these models.

Developer announcement or release log

Benchmark results

EPOCH AI CAPABILITY ESTIMATE
165.0index points
Tested variant: Claude Sonnet 5.5Source interval: 161.7 to 169.1Variant date in source: Sep 28, 2026

A benchmark estimate, not a percentage or capability multiplier. Reasoning settings are not specified in this source table. Historical estimates can change in later snapshots.

Epoch AI methodology ↗Download the source snapshotChecked Oct 7, 2026 · CC BY 4.0
PUBLISHED BENCHMARK RESULT
56.0index points
Tested: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback)Intelligence Index v4.3.2

Selected highest effort variant where available in the current table. Starred partial results are excluded. Claude fallback configurations can use other models when safeguards intervene.

Source: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index ↗Download selected resultsChecked Oct 8, 2026
PUBLISHED BENCHMARK RESULT
1476rating points
Tested: claude-sonnet-5.5-xhighText Arena Overall · October 8, 2026Reported interval: 1467 to 14854,838 votes

One explicitly named variant per release. Scores come from the same Overall snapshot; preliminary entries and reported intervals are preserved. These are current ratings of earlier variants, not their launch day ratings.

Source: Text Arena ↗Download selected resultsChecked Oct 8, 2026
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