Claude Sonnet 5 API pricing
Published on-demand rates for Anthropic's claude-sonnet-5, captured 2026-08-10 from public pricing data and committed to our archive. Context window 1M tokens; first observed in our archive 2026-07-01.
| Meter | USD per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $2.00 |
| Output | $10.00 |
| Cached input | $0.200 |
Standard on-demand rates. Excludes batch endpoints and negotiated pricing; confirm on Anthropic's pricing page before committing.
What it costs on a real workload
The four frozen profiles the LLMPrice indices price, per 1M tokens processed, at the rates above. Where no cache-read rate is published, the whole input bills at the standard rate.
| Profile | In / out mix | Cached share | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval | 800k / 200k | 70% | $2.59 |
| Chat | 500k / 500k | 30% | $5.73 |
| Content | 200k / 800k | 20% | $8.33 |
| Agent | 900k / 100k | 85% | $1.42 |
Profile definitions are frozen and published on the methodology page. Compare every model on these profiles →
Observed rate history
| Observed | Input | Output | Cached input | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-01 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.300 | entered our archive |
| 2026-07-06 | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.200 | repricing observed |
Dates are when we observed the rate in our own snapshots, which can lag the provider's announcement. Rates per 1M tokens.
Priced near this one
The models closest to Claude Sonnet 5 on a retrieval workload, cheaper and more expensive alike. We publish no quality score, so this is what they cost and nothing more.
| Model | Provider | Input | Output | vs Claude Sonnet 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magistral Medium 1.2 | Mistral | $2.00 | $5.00 | about the same |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1.25 | $10.00 | 9% less | |
| GPT 5 Chat | OpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 | 9% less |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1.50 | $9.00 | 13% less |
Compared on the retrieval profile: 800k input, 200k output, 70% of input cached where the model offers a cache rate.
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