Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed this week On 30 June 2026, Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 and quietly made it the default across the Claude family — including inside Claude Code, the terminal-native agent that a large share of Indian and UK engineering teams now lean on for day-to-day work. The headline for builders is not a benchmark chart. It is three practical facts stacked together: Sonnet 5 is the new default, it carries a native 1M-token context window, and it is available at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through 31 August 2026, per Anthropic's announcement. New default — Sonnet 5 is the default for Free and Pro plans, available to Max, Team and Enterprise, and is the default model in Claude Code. 1M context, natively — the million-token…
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