Claude Sonnet 5 pricing
Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. Claude Sonnet 5 from Anthropic costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.200 per 1M. Context window 1,000,000 tokens.
API id claude-sonnet-5 · Anthropic · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose
$2.00
Input / 1M tokens
$10.00
Output / 1M tokens
$0.200
Cached input / 1M
1M
Context window
Claude Sonnet 5 specifications
- Provider
- Anthropic
- API id
claude-sonnet-5- Model type
- general-purpose
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 128K tokens
- Currency
- USD
- Price source
- First-party
- Last checked
- 2026-09-25
Claude Sonnet 5 across providers
The same model, priced by every seller we track. Ranked by the cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens, standard tier; savings measured against buying from the vendor directly.
| Provider | Input /1M | Cached /1M | Output /1M | 1M in + 1M out | vs vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2.00 | $0.200 | $10.00 | $12.00 | — | |
OpenRouterHost | $2.00 | $0.200 | $10.00 | $12.00 | — |
DeepInfraHost | $3.00 | — | $15.00 | $18.00 | +50% |
What Claude Sonnet 5 costs in practice
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 1,000 | 500 | $0.0070 |
| Document summary | 50,000 | 2,000 | $0.12 |
| 1M tokens in, 200K out | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | $4.00 |
Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.
Common questions
- How much does Claude Sonnet 5 cost per 1M tokens?
- Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.200 per 1M.
- What is Claude Sonnet 5's context window?
- Claude Sonnet 5 accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 128,000 output tokens.
- Is there a cheaper Claude model than Claude Sonnet 5?
- Yes. Claude Haiku 3.5 is $0.800 per 1M input tokens versus $2.00 for Claude Sonnet 5.
- Where does this Claude Sonnet 5 price come from?
- Directly from Anthropic's published pricing page, re-read every day and normalized to USD per 1,000,000 tokens.
Head-to-head comparisons
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