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Claude Sonnet 5 pricing per token
Anthropic
frontier

Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens (list pricing as of 2026-08-15, sourced from Anthropic). See the full rate card below and project your monthly spend in the calculator.

Rate card

Input$2.00 / 1M tokens
Output$10.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read$0.200 / 1M tokens
Cache write$2.50 / 1M tokens
Context window1,000,000 tokens
Max output128,000 tokens

Official source: Anthropic pricing page . Batch API discounts (typically 50%) are available via the calculator's Batch mode.

What would it cost you per month?

A chat app making 500 calls/day at 1.2K input + 400 output tokens spends roughly $96.00/mo on Claude Sonnet 5. Enter your real workload for an exact projection and to compare against other models.

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