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Claude Sonnet 5: The Mid-Tier Model That Now Runs Agent Workloads

Anthropic is positioning Claude Sonnet 5 as its most agentic mid-tier model, able to handle planning, browser, and terminal tasks at lower cost and shifting routine agent workloads away from expensive frontier models. The move points to a broader restructuring of AI product economics, where frontier models become specialists for high-risk tasks and mid-tier or local models absorb the bulk of autonomous work.