Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 API cost is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
- Provider
- Anthropic
- API model name
- claude-sonnet-5
- Status
- Previous generation
- Input, $ per 1M tokens
- $2.00
- Cached input, $ per 1M tokens
- $0.20
- Output, $ per 1M tokens
- $10.00
- Sample request (10K in, 2K out), $
- $0.04
- Context window, tokens
- 1M
- Price checked on
- Official pricing page
- platform.claude.com
These are standard rates on Anthropic’s own API. Cached input is billed at $0.20 per million tokens. A request with 10,000 input tokens and 2,000 output tokens costs about $0.04 before caching or batch discounts. The API model name is claude-sonnet-5, and the context window is 1M tokens. Its successor, Claude Sonnet 5.5, is sold at the same rates, and both cost a third less than Claude Sonnet 4.6.
Cache writes cost $2.50 per 1M tokens for a 5-minute cache and $4 for a 1-hour cache.
- Cache writes, $ per 1M tokens
- $2.50
- Max output, tokens
- 128K
- Input types
- Text, image, file
- Open weights
- No
- Batch pricing
- 50% off input and output tokens
- Pricing notes
- Cache writes cost $2.50 per 1M tokens for a 5-minute cache and $4 for a 1-hour cache.
- Sources
Page URL Checked Claude API pricing https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing 2026-10-19 OpenRouter model listing (context and output limits) https://openrouter.ai/models 2026-09-29
Questions
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claude-sonnet-5 in API calls to Anthropic. The context window is 1M tokens, and a response can run to 128,000 output tokens.What does one Claude Sonnet 5 request cost?
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Sources
Prices are read from each provider’s official pricing page: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini API, xAI, DeepSeek and Mistral AI. Context and output limits that a provider does not publish come from OpenRouter’s model listing. Each model’s Sources field lists the pages used and the date each was checked. How we check prices · Price change log