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Anthropic (Claude) API pricing
As of 2026-10-05, the OptimToken catalogue holds 14 Anthropic models. By price tier, 11 are Frontier and 3 Mid-tier. The cheapest is Claude Haiku 4.5 at $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $5.00 per 1M output tokens. The most expensive is Claude Fable 5.1 at $10.00 input and $50.00 output, 10x the cheapest on blended price (30% input, 70% output), the same blended price as one other. These are the prices we quote: a model sold by several hosts has other rates, listed on its own page.
Anthropic models and prices
| Model | Input | Output | Batch (in / out) | Cache read | Context | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.50 / $2.50 | $0.10 | 200K | Proprietary |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2.00 | $10.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | $0.20 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 | $10.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | $0.20 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Sonnet 4 (deprecated) | $3.00 | $15.00 | not published | $0.30 | 200K | Proprietary |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $1.50 / $7.50 | $0.30 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $1.50 / $7.50 | $0.30 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4.00 | $20.00 | $2.00 / $10.00 | $0.20 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $5.00 | $25.00 | $2.50 / $12.50 | $0.50 | 200K | Proprietary |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $5.00 | $25.00 | $2.50 / $12.50 | $0.50 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | $5.00 | $25.00 | $2.50 / $12.50 | $0.50 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5.00 | $25.00 | $2.50 / $12.50 | $0.50 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Opus 5 | $5.00 | $25.00 | $2.50 / $12.50 | $0.50 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10.00 | $50.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $1.00 | 1M | Proprietary |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | $10.00 | $50.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $0.25 | 1M | Proprietary |
Published discounts: a prompt-cache read rate for all 14 and a batch rate for 13 of the 14. The most recent by release date are Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 (2026-09). Arena ELO scores (as of 2026-10-02) exist for all 14; the highest is Claude Fable 5 at 1504. One is under a retirement notice from the model maker: a model to migrate off, not to start on.
Licences
All 14 are recorded here as proprietary: access is through an API, priced by the token. Licences are as recorded in this catalogue: check the maker's own terms before relying on one.
Price changes since tracking began
Our daily price archive began on 2026-08-15 and holds a record for all 14 models. The price we quote has not changed for any of them since each was first recorded. Since tracking began, 3 of them joined the catalogue, most recently Claude Sonnet 5.5 on 2026-09-29. Last checked against the 2026-10-05 snapshot.
Head-to-head comparisons
Models from Anthropic appear on 10 ready-made side-by-side pages.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5.6 Luna
- Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.5
- Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash
- Claude Sonnet 5 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
- Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.5
- Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
- Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 5
- Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 5
- Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5 Pro
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- Meta API pricing
- MiniMax API pricing
- Mistral API pricing
- Moonshot (Kimi) API pricing
- Nvidia (Nemotron) API pricing
- OpenAI (GPT) API pricing
- Perplexity (Sonar) API pricing
- Sakana (Fugu) API pricing
- Tencent (Hy) API pricing
- Upstage (Solar) API pricing
- xAI (Grok) API pricing
- Xiaomi (MiMo) API pricing
- Zhipu (GLM) API pricing
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