Claude Sonnet 5 vs Command R+
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Sonnet 5 is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (85 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Claude Sonnet 5 has a 1M context window vs 128K tokens - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Command R+ | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓1M | 128K tokens |
| Input / 1M tokens | $3.00 | ✓$2.50 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $15.00 | $10.00 |
| Release date | 2026-06 | 2024-08 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Command R+ |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | ~85.2% | - |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.4% | - |
| SWE-bench Pro | 63.2% | - |
| OSWorld-Verified | 81.2% | - |
| RAG (BEIR) | - | Top-5 |
| MMLU | - | ~75% |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Claude Sonnet 5 if...
- →You want frontier-adjacent agentic coding but need better cost-efficiency than Opus
- →You are running high-volume agent loops and want strong reasoning per dollar
- →You are already on Sonnet 4.6 and want a same-price capability upgrade
- →You need a 1M context window with fast latency
Choose Command R+ if...
- →Your core use case is grounded RAG with citations
- →You need reliable multi-step tool/agent orchestration
- →You want an enterprise model available on Bedrock
- →You need multilingual responses across the 10 optimized languages