Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback) API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback) for your use-case.
Fastest
Google
Amazon
AnthropicOutput speed
Total 3 providers
Lowest Latency
GoogleAnthropicAmazonTime to first answer token
Total 3 providers
Lowest Price
AnthropicAmazonGoogleBlended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 3 providers
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low with fallback) is available through 3 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are Google (102.6 t/s), Amazon (98.7 t/s), and Anthropic (88.9 t/s).
- For latency, Google (0.68s), Anthropic (1.05s), and Amazon (1.53s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, Anthropic (1.54), Amazon (1.54), and Google (1.54) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
- Google offers the best performance with both the highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, Anthropic provides the most competitive pricing.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback)
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback) providers
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback) is currently available through 3 API providers that we benchmark and track.
All 3 providers of Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback) support function calling (tool use).
When choosing a provider for Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback), consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort, Default Fallback)'s intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview