Overview
- Anthropic says Sonnet 4.5 can operate autonomously for about 30 hours on complex, multi‑step tasks, up from roughly seven hours reported for Opus 4.
- The model leads key coding and computer‑use benchmarks, including SWE‑Bench Verified and a record 61.4% on OSWorld.
- Anthropic highlights expanded safety training with AI Safety Level 3 protections and reduced risks such as sycophancy, deception, and prompt‑injection.
- Sonnet 4.5 is available now in Claude.ai, the API, and Claude Code at the same price as Sonnet 4 — $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
- New developer and enterprise features include Claude Code checkpoints, a native VS Code extension, a Claude Agent SDK, and early integrations such as Microsoft 365 Copilot features and Databricks workspace rollout.