Claude Sonnet 5 API Pricing
Anthropic · Mid-tier · Proprietary · released 2026-06. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-06.
- Input: $2.00 per 1M tokens
- Output: $10.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): $1.00 / $5.00
- Prompt-cache read: $0.20
- Context window: 1M
- Arena ELO: 1461 (as of 2026-09-01)
- Available on: Direct API, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
- AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-north-1, eu-south-1, eu-south-2, eu-west-1, eu-west-3, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.0080 | $0.0064 | $638 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.012 | $0.0095 | $948 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.032 | $0.015 | $1.5K |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.023 | $0.022 | $2.2K |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.026 | $0.023 | $2.3K |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.0090 | $0.0041 | $414 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.011 | $0.0053 | $534 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.042 | $0.034 | $3.4K |
Claude Sonnet 5 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 5 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-06 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Platform on AWS (the price shown above) | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Azure (the price shown above) | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Google (the price shown above) | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Amazon Bedrock (the price shown above) | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Anthropic (the price shown above) | $2.00 | $10.00 |
Models comparable to Claude Sonnet 5
The nearest Mid-tier models on Arena ELO, so a substitution is compared on quality as well as price.
- Grok 4.6 (xAI) — $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1461
- Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot) — $0.95 in / $4.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1461
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — $0.30 in / $2.50 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1458
- GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) — $2.00 in / $12.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1466
Claude Sonnet 5 head to head
Common questions about Claude Sonnet 5 pricing
- How much does Claude Sonnet 5 cost?
- Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Claude Sonnet 5 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes. Batch API pricing is $1.00/M input and $5.00/M output. Prompt-cache reads cost $0.20/M.
- What would Claude Sonnet 5 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Claude Sonnet 5 costs about $800 at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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