Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 by Anthropic. Official list price: $2 per 1M input and $10 per 1M output tokens.
Official price benchmark
USD per 1M tokens
- input
- $2.00
- output
- $10.00
- cache read
- $0.200
Your budget
Input:output ratio · Similar amounts of input and output
Purchasing power ranking
$100 · Claude Sonnet 5 · Balanced
Best price
XCLI
−98%
providers
12
max −98%
Purchasing power ranking
The provider's published prices next to the vendor's official list.
| # | Provider | Input | Output | Cache | Uptime | Latency | Score | Tokens for budget | vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Official price | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.200 | — | — | — | 16.7M | 0% |
| 1 | Kantrooperational · Nov 12, 2026 | $0.640 | $3.20 | $0.064 | 100.0% | 628 ms | 96 | 52.1M | −68% |
| 2 | Clean APIoperational · Nov 12, 2026 | $3.32 | $3.32 | — | 100.0% | 533 ms | 97 | 30.1M | −45% |
| 3 | Polza.aioperational · Nov 12, 2026 | $2.94 | $14.70 | $0.294 | 100.0% | 471 ms | 98 | 11.3M | +47% |
Some links on this site are partner links. They do not affect prices or ranking. Uptime and latency come from our own GET /models probes every 30 minutes, not a guarantee that the model is available.
Cost estimate
What one request and a month of traffic cost at the selected provider.
per request
$0.0024
per month
$14.42
Kantro · −68% · 1.20K / 500
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Frequently asked questions
Answers are generated from the live quotes.
We collect Claude Sonnet 5 prices two ways: the official Anthropic list and quotes from providers our crawler checks daily. Providers in our catalogue sell Claude Sonnet 5 at $0.040 in / $0.200 out (98% below the official list). Everything is normalised to a blended cost at a chosen input:output ratio, so “Claude Sonnet 5 price per 1M tokens” means the same thing on every page.
What does the Claude Sonnet 5 API cost?
The official Anthropic list price is $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.200 per 1M tokens, 10× cheaper than the regular input.
How much does 1 million tokens of Claude Sonnet 5 cost?
1M input tokens cost $2.00, 1M output tokens — $10.00. With a 1:1 input/output load a million tokens works out to about $6.00. Chatbots with long context push the blended price down; code generation pushes it up.
Where is the Claude Sonnet 5 API cheapest?
Our measurements show XCLI as the lowest quote: 98% below the official list. Quotes from 12 providers refresh daily — see the table above.
What is the Claude Sonnet 5 context window?
The context window is 400K tokens. Some vendors raise the price above a context threshold — check the plan notes.
How do I check that a provider key works?
The free checker sends a GET request to your endpoint's model list and reports status and latency. The key is not stored server-side.