Substitutes · Claude Sonnet 4.510 alternatives · within 10% performance · lower price
Cheaper alternatives to Claude Sonnet 4.5
Drop-in substitutes within 10% of Claude Sonnet 4.5's average benchmark, priced lower, sorted by price. Target price $3.00/M · target score 37.8.
gpt-oss-120b (free)
OpenAI
Price
Free
Score
68.7
Ctx
131K
Save 100%·182% of Claude Sonnet 4.5
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The cheapest drop-in alternative is gpt-oss-120b (free) at Free/M input · 100% cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.5 with 182% of the benchmark score.