Claude Sonnet 5 API Pricing

Anthropic — current verified pricing, stamped 2026-08-06.

Scheduled price change: rises to $3 in / $15 out per MTok on 2026-09-01.
Input per 1M tokens$2
Output per 1M tokens$10
Cache read per 1M tokens$0.2
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Sourceofficial pricing page · verified 2026-08-06

Introductory pricing through 2026-08-31; rises to $3 in / $15 out on 2026-09-01. Newer tokenizer (~+30% tokens).

Example costs

  • One request (2,000 in / 500 out): $0.0090
  • 100K such requests/month: $900
  • 1M input + 1M output tokens: $12

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