Claude Sonnet 5 API pricing
Anthropic's mid-size Claude 5 model — the price/performance default.
Input
$2.00
per 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.20
per 1M tokens
Cache write
$2.50
per 1M tokens
Output
$10.00
per 1M tokens
Context window
1M
max output 125K
Prices last synced Aug 20, 2026 from the LiteLLM community price catalog — the same catalog Marginal prices real usage events against, refreshed daily. Hand-checked against the provider's official pricing page on Aug 20, 2026. Spot an error? Tell us.
Pricing notes
- Cache writes $2.50/1M (5m) or $4.00/1M (1h); batch $1.00/$5.00. 1M-token context at standard rates.
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Your monthly workload
Cache hit rate = share of input tokens served from the provider's prompt cache, billed at the model's cached-input price. Estimates use standard per-token rates — batch discounts, service tiers, and long-context surcharges are not applied.
| Model | Input | Cached input | Output | Per request | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $1,200 | $80.00 | $2,500 | $0.00756 | $3,780 |
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