Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic's balance of speed and intelligence: a 1M-token context window at a fraction of Opus pricing, the default for most coding and agent workloads.

ActiveReleased June 30, 2026Knowledge cutoff January 31, 2026Available from 2 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data.

Source: Anthropic pricing, Claude models overview

Price per 1M tokens
$2 in / $10 out
Context window1,000,000
Max output128,000
Cache read$0.2 / M
Batch discount-50%
ModalitiesText, Image → Text
Priced across2 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRateBatch
Input$2 / M$1 / M
Output$10 / M$5 / M
Cache read$0.2 / M$0.1 / M
Cache write · 5 min$2.5 / M$1.25 / M
Cache write · 1 hour$4 / M$2 / M

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$1.0K
at current list prices
Fresh input$400
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$600
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Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
AnthropicLowest
$2$10$0.2✓First-party API
Cursor
$3$15$0.3—Direct

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
June 30, 2026 – September 1, 2026$2 / $10current
September 1, 2026$3 / $15upcoming

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