claude-sonnet-5 API pricing
Anthropic charges $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens for claude-sonnet-5, and $0.2 per million cached input tokens. A typical request of 1,000 input and 500 output tokens costs $0.007, or $0.0035 through the batch API.
Prices updated October 28, 2026
Input / 1M tokens
$2
Output / 1M tokens
$10
Cached input / 1M tokens
$0.2
Typical request
$0.007
claude-sonnet-5 price per million tokens
| Token type | Standard | Batch API |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2 | $1 |
| Cached input | $0.2 | $0.1 |
| Output | $10 | $5 |
claude-sonnet-5 supports a 1M-token context window, up to 128K output tokens, image input, tool calling and reasoning.
What claude-sonnet-5 costs per request
| Request | 1 request | 1,000 requests | 1M requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message (300 in, 200 out) | $0.0026 | $2.60 | $2,600.00 |
| Typical request (1K in, 500 out) | $0.007 | $7.00 | $7,000.00 |
| Long document summary (20K in, 1K out) | $0.05 | $50.00 | $50,000.00 |
| Coding agent step (50K in, 2K out) | $0.12 | $120.00 | $120,000.00 |
At standard rates. A token is about 4 characters of English text, so 1,000 tokens is roughly 750 words. Anthropic counts tokens with its own tokenizer, so the same text can be a different number of tokens.
Models with a similar price
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Cached input / 1M | Output / 1M | Typical request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-5 | OpenAI | $1.25 | $0.125 | $10 | $0.00625 |
| gpt-5.1 | OpenAI | $1.25 | $0.125 | $10 | $0.00625 |
| gemini-2.5-pro | Google Gemini | $1.25 | $0.125 | $10 | $0.00625 |
| gpt-6-sol | OpenAI | $2 | $0.2 | $10 | $0.007 |
| gpt-6.1-sol | OpenAI | $2 | $0.1 | $10 | $0.007 |
| claude-sonnet-5-5 | Anthropic | $2 | $0.1 | $10 | $0.007 |
| gemini-4-argon | Google Gemini | $2 | $0.1 | $10 | $0.007 |
| gpt-4o | OpenAI | $2.5 | $1.25 | $10 | $0.0075 |
Other Anthropic models
- claude-fable-5 $10 / $50
- claude-fable-5-1 $10 / $50
- claude-haiku-4-5 $1 / $5
- claude-haiku-5-5 $0.1 / $0.5
- claude-mythos-5 $10 / $50
- claude-mythos-5-1 $10 / $50
- claude-opus-4-5 $5 / $25
- claude-opus-4-6 $5 / $25
- claude-opus-4-7 $5 / $25
- claude-opus-4-8 $5 / $25
- claude-opus-5 $5 / $25
- claude-opus-5-5 $4 / $20
- claude-sonnet-4-5 $3 / $15
- claude-sonnet-4-6 $3 / $15
- claude-sonnet-5-5 $2 / $10
Source: Anthropic pricing.