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Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens, $0.20 cached input and $10.00 per 1M output tokens. Batch API: $1.00 input, $5.00 output.

Updated September 21, 2026
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$10.00
Cached Input
$0.20
Context Window
1M
Standard Input
$2.00 / 1M
Base prompt input rate
Standard Output
$10.00 / 1M
Completion output rate
Prompt Caching -90%
$0.20 / 1M
Cached prompt context
Batch API -50%
$1.00 / 1M
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Model pricing

All rates listed in USD per 1 Million (1M) tokens unless noted

Standard
Pricing Metric / Parameter
Standard RATE
(per 1M)
Base input tokens$2 / MTok
5m cache writes$2.50 / MTok
1h cache writes$4 / MTok
Cache hits and refreshes$0.20 / MTok
Output tokens$10 / MTok

Batch processing

All rates listed in USD per 1 Million (1M) tokens unless noted

Standard
Pricing Metric / Parameter
Standard RATE
(per 1M)
Batch input$1 / MTok
Batch output$5 / MTok

Source: Anthropic official pricing page, verified 2026-09-21. Prices in USD per 1M tokens.

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