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Claude Sonnet 5 Cost Calculator

Claude Sonnet 5 opens the Claude 5 family: near-flagship capability at $2/$10 with the same 1M context and 128K output as Opus. The price/performance pick of the Anthropic lineup.

Input

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$10.00

per 1M tokens

Context window

1000K

tokens

Released

2026-06

Cutoff —

Model

≈ Estimated tokenizer·$2.00 in·$10.00 out (per 1M)

Quick start with a use case

Input tokens

Output tokens

Total cost per call$0.007000

Input$0.002000

Output$0.005000

Cost comparison

Standard

$0.007000

With Caching

$0.006100

Save 13% ↓

With Batch

$0.003500

Save 50% ↓

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Detailed pricing

Claude Sonnet 5 pricing breakdown

All pricing dimensions including caching and batch discounts.

Type	Price (per 1M tokens)	Note
Input	$2.0000	Standard input tokens
Output	$10.0000	Generated output tokens
Cached input	$0.2000	Reused prompt content
Cache write	$2.5000	First-time cache deposit (Anthropic / Gemini style)
Batch input	$1.0000	~24h delay, 50% off
Batch output	$5.0000	Batch API output

Cutting costs? Open models start at $0.14/1M

DeepSeek, Kimi & 200+ open models on Novita AI — often 5–20x cheaper than proprietary APIs for comparable tasks.

Try Novita AI

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How it compares

Claude Sonnet 5 vs alternatives

Single-call cost (1000 input + 500 output tokens) ranked from cheapest.

Model	Per call	vs Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic · this page	$0.007000	—
DeepSeek V4-Flash DeepSeek	$0.000280	−96%
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	$0.000480	−93%
GPT-5 mini OpenAI	$0.001250	−82%
Mistral Large 3 Mistral	$0.001250	−82%
Gemini 3 Flash Google	$0.002000	−71%

Recommended use

When to choose Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5 shines for general-purpose tasks, code generation and review, and complex multi-step reasoning. Token counts are estimated within ~10-20% margin.

✓Context window of 1000K tokens handles entire codebases or book-length documents.

✓Prompt caching available — significant savings for repeated system prompts.

✓Batch API support for non-realtime workloads at ~50% discount.

✓Tool / function calling supported.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens. A typical chat call (1000 input + 500 output tokens) costs approximately $0.0070. Use the calculator above to estimate your specific use case.