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✓ Prices checked against official pricing pages on October 19, 2026Claude Sonnet 5 pricing
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 (API model claude-sonnet-5) list prices, what typical workloads cost, and how it compares.
$2.00per 1M input tokens
$0.20per 1M cached input tokens
$10.00per 1M output tokens
- Uses Anthropic's newer tokenizer, which produces about 30% more tokens for the same text than Claude Sonnet 4.6 and earlier.
- Batch processing: 50% off input and output ($1.00 / $5.00 per 1M tokens).
Source: Anthropic pricing, checked October 19, 2026.
What Claude Sonnet 5 costs for typical workloads
| Workload | Tokens per request | Per request | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatbot reply | 1,500 input / 400 output tokens | $0.0091 | $9.10 |
| RAG answer | 8,000 input / 600 output tokens | $0.0286 | $28.60 |
| Agent step | 30,000 input (80% cached) / 800 output | $0.0322 | $32.24 |
| Summarize a long report | 60,000 input / 1,200 output tokens | $0.172 | $171.60 |
| Classify a ticket | 400 input / 10 output tokens | $0.00117 | $1.17 |
Token figures are for the same text measured with OpenAI's tokenizer; costs include Claude's ~30% higher token count.
Claude Sonnet 5 cost calculator
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.0091 | $273.00 |
| GPT-5 nanoOpenAI | $0.05 | $0.40 | $0.000235 | $7.05 |
| GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.00035 | $10.50 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.000455 | $13.65 |
| GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | $0.20 | $1.20 | $0.00078 | $23.40 |
| GPT-5.4 nanoOpenAI | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.0008 | $24.00 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.00093 | $27.90 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGoogle | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.000975 | $29.25 |
| GPT-5 miniOpenAI | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.00118 | $35.25 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.00145 | $43.50 |
| Grok Build 0.1xAI | $1.00 | $2.00 | $0.0023 | $69.00 |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.00262 | $78.75 |
| Grok 4.3xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.00287 | $86.25 |
| GPT-5.4 miniOpenAI | $0.75 | $4.50 | $0.00292 | $87.75 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.0035 | $105.00 |
| DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek | $1.32 | $3.96 | $0.00356 | $106.92 |
| Grok 4.5xAI | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.0054 | $162.00 |
| Grok 4.7xAI | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.0054 | $162.00 |
| GPT-5OpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 | $0.00588 | $176.25 |
| Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.007 | $210.00 |
| GPT-6 SolOpenAI | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.007 | $210.00 |
| GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.007 | $210.00 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)Google | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.0078 | $234.00 |
| GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.0078 | $234.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.0091 | $273.00 |
| GPT-5.4OpenAI | $2.50 | $15.00 | $0.00975 | $292.50 |
| GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.014 | $420.00 |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.0182 | $546.00 |
| GPT-5.5OpenAI | $5.00 | $30.00 | $0.0195 | $585.00 |
| Claude Opus 5Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.0227 | $682.50 |
| GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.035 | $1,050 |
| Claude Fable 5Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.0455 | $1,365 |
| Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.0455 | $1,365 |
30,000 requests a month · prices per 1M tokens, USD · month = 30 days
Alternatives to Claude Sonnet 5
Cost per 1,000 chatbot replies (1,500 input / 400 output tokens).
- Grok 4.3 (xAI): $2.88, 3.2× cheaper
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (DeepSeek): $3.56, 2.6× cheaper
- Grok 4.5 (xAI): $5.40, 1.7× cheaper
- GPT-5 (OpenAI): $5.88, 1.5× cheaper
- GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI): $7.00, 1.3× cheaper
- GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI): $7.00, 1.3× cheaper
- GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI): $7.80, 1.2× cheaper
- Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) (Google): $7.80, 1.2× cheaper
Other Anthropic models
- Claude Fable 5.1 · $10.00 / $50.00
- Claude Fable 5 · $10.00 / $50.00
- Claude Opus 5.5 · $4.00 / $20.00
- Claude Opus 5 · $5.00 / $25.00
- Claude Opus 4.8 · $5.00 / $25.00
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 · $2.00 / $10.00
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 · $3.00 / $15.00
- Claude Haiku 5.5 · $0.10 / $0.50
- Claude Haiku 4.5 · $1.00 / $5.00