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Claude Opus 5 vs Sonar Deep Research
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 92 6.1 | 25 5.1 |
| Family | Claude Opus | Sonar |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Jul 2026 | Mar 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.0M tokens | 128K tokens |
| Input Price | $5.00/M tokens | $2.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $25.00/M tokens | $8.00/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Claude Opus 5 is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens; fast mode is priced separately at Fable-level rates. | — |
| Capabilities | textvisionreasoningcodingtool-useagentslong-context | textcode |
| Max Output | 128K tokens | — |
| API Identifier | claude-opus-5 | perplexity/sonar-deep-research |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 61artificial-analysis | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 | 63artificial-analysis | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | 51https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 93.2323artificial-analysis | 47.1perplexity |
| SciCode | 56.3657artificial-analysis | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 89.1386artificial-analysis | — |
| MMLU Pro | — | 68.9perplexity |
| MATH-500 | — | 81.7perplexity |
| AIME | — | 48.7perplexity |
| View Claude Opus 5 | View Sonar Deep Research | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
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| Sonar Deep ResearchCheapest | $2.00 | $4.00 | $6.00 | — |
| Claude Opus 5 | $5.00 | $12.50 | $17.50 | +192% |
Anthropic
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's Opus-class model for complex agentic coding and enterprise work. Official Claude docs list the claude-opus-5 API ID, 1M token context window, 128k max output, adaptive thinking, and $5 input / $25 output pricing per million tokens.
Perplexity AI
Sonar Deep Research
Sonar Deep Research is a large language model from Perplexity AI. Supports up to 128,000 token context window. Achieves 83.0% on MMLU. Available from $2.00/M input tokens.
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