Claude API pricing
Claude Fable 5.2, the Anthropic flagship, costs $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens. Anthropic’s other current models, per million input / output tokens: Claude Opus 5.5 $4 / $20, Claude Sonnet 5.5 $2 / $10 and Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.10 / $0.50.
Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 (previous version) also run on cheaper AI API credit, up to 60% below list. $25 a month brings $110 of API credit and cancels any time; $25 once buys $100. Claude has a free plan, and its paid plans are Pro ($20/mo), Max 5x ($100/mo), Max 20x ($200/mo), Team Standard ($25/mo) and Team Premium ($125/mo). Claude monthly plans
| Claude Fable 5.2 | Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $8.00 | $4.00 | $2.00 | $0.10 |
| Output | $40.00 | $20.00 | $10.00 | $0.50 |
| Cache read | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.10 | $0.01 |
| Cache write | $10.00 | $5.00 | $2.50 | $0.125 |
| Batch input | $4.00 | $2.00 | $1.00 | $0.05 |
| Batch output | $20.00 | $10.00 | $5.00 | $0.25 |
| Through AIGROW credit | ||||
| Input | $3.20 | $1.60 | $0.80 | Not sold through credit |
| Output | $16.00 | $8.00 | $4.00 | Not sold through credit |
US dollars per million tokens. List prices read 12 November 2026 from Anthropic. Cache write is the 5-minute rate. Batch is the Batch API rate, for requests that need no answer at once.
What the film says
- Paying list price for Claude?
- Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.7, +4 more models
- $1.60 instead of $4.00. Per million input tokens on Claude Opus 5.5.
- 9 of 9 models on sale pass the check against the same model at its maker. The results and the script are public: aigrow.gg/ai-api/genuine-models
- API credit$100 of API credit for $25. Start today.
Per token and per pass
The list price per million tokens, then how many of the benchmark’s 20 office tasks each model passed and what 1,000 passing answers cost, failed runs included.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Tasks passed | 1,000 passes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5.2Flagships | $8.00 | $40.00 | $0.20 | 1M | · | · |
| Claude Opus 5.5Flagships | $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.20 | 1M | · | · |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Workhorses | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.10 | 1M | · | · |
| Claude Haiku 5.5Small and fast | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.01 | 1M | · | · |
| Earlier generations | ||||||
| Claude Fable 5.1Replaced by Claude Fable 5.2 | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.25 | 1M | 17 of 20 | $33.11 |
| Claude Opus 5Replaced by Claude Opus 5.5 | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 17 of 20 | $16.89 |
| Claude Sonnet 5Replaced by Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.20 | 1M | 17 of 20 | $6.70 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6Replaced by Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | 1M | 15 of 20 | $11.24 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5Replaced by Claude Haiku 5.5 | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.10 | 200K | 7 of 20 | $6.62 |
AIGROW API credit per million input / output tokens: Claude Opus 5.5 $1.60 / $8.00, Claude Fable 5.2 $3.20 / $16.00, Claude Sonnet 5.5 $0.80 / $4.00 and Claude Fable 5.1 (previous version) $4.00 / $20.00. That is up to 60% below list price. See API credit
Where a model ran on a subscription, its cost per pass is worked from the list price above rather than billed usage.
To see what your own workload costs on every model, use the LLM API cost calculator.
Claude monthly plans
Consumer and team subscription plans published by Anthropic for Claude.
| Plan | Monthly price | Models included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Pro | $20/mo ($17/mo billed yearly) | Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Max 5x | $100/mo | Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Haiku 5.5Earlier generations: Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Max 20x | $200/mo | Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Haiku 5.5Earlier generations: Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Team Standard | $25/mo ($20/mo billed yearly) | Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Team Premium | $125/mo ($100/mo billed yearly) | Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Haiku 5.5Earlier generations: Claude Fable 5.1 |
claude.com/pricing · support.claude.com/en/articles/11049741-what-is-the-max-plan · Read 22 October 2026. Prices can differ by country and include or exclude tax depending on the country.
What a token is and what one message costs
A token is a piece of a word. The API counts every token it reads as input and every token it writes as output, and bills each kind per million. Here is one ordinary message at Anthropic’s list price.
A month of Claude tokens through AIGROW credit
Pick how you use it to see a month at Anthropic’s list price and through credit, from the same rates the meter bills with.
Claude Fable 5.2, Coding agent: $441.00 a month at the list price, $214.20 through AIGROW credit, $226.80 less (51%).
Covered by the $250 monthly planThis use takes 69% of its credit each month.
How we count
A developer in Claude Code, Cline or OpenCode, 250 requests on each of 21 working days. Each request reads 60,000 tokens of conversation and files from the prompt cache, writes 2,400 new ones to it, sends 1,200 uncached and gets 600 back.
Cache reads on Claude Fable 5.2 cost the list rate through credit too, so a use that reads mostly from the cache saves less than the headline discount.
Cache writes on Claude Fable 5.2 go to the 1-hour cache, so both columns price them at 2 times input.
Anthropic prices the 4 current models on our list from Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 in and $0.50 out per million tokens to Claude Fable 5.2 at $8 in and $40 out. Prices checked 12 November 2026 on Anthropic’s own pricing page.
What three everyday jobs cost
1,000 runs of each job at list price. The token counts are ours; the prices are Anthropic’s.
| Model | 1,000 × support reply | 1,000 × document summary | 1,000 × agent task |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5.2 | $40.00 | $240 | $214 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $20.00 | $120 | $114 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $10.00 | $60.00 | $57.00 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.50 | $3.00 | $3.20 |
- Support reply
- A 3,000-token prompt (the ticket, the thread so far and a policy excerpt) and a 400-token answer.
- Document summary
- A 40-page document of about 25,000 tokens in, a 1,000-token summary out.
- Agent task
- Ten steps that read 80,000 tokens between them, 70,000 of them context repeated from step to step and served from cache, and write 3,000.
Questions about Claude API pricing
- How much does one Claude token cost?
- On Claude Fable 5.2, 1,000 input tokens cost $0.008 and 1,000 output tokens cost $0.04. On Claude Haiku 5.5, the lowest-priced, they cost $0.0001 and $0.0005.
- How many tokens is a word?
- Anthropic puts a token at about 3.5 English characters on models before Claude 4.7, and Claude 4.7 and later count about 30% more tokens for the same text. Taking a word as 6 characters with its space, that is about 2.2 tokens a word on current Claude models, so 100 words come to about 223 tokens.
- Is there a free tier on the Claude API?
- Anthropic gives new API users a small amount of free credit to test the API. After that, billing follows actual monthly usage, in US dollars. Standard accounts pay by credit card, and enterprise customers can arrange invoicing.
- How are cached prompts and batch requests charged?
- A cache write costs 1.25 times the input price for 5 minutes and twice the input price for 1 hour. A cache read costs 0.1 times the input price: 0.05 times on Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5, 0.025 times on Claude Fable 5.2. The Batch API takes 50% off input and output, and the two discounts stack.
- How can I pay less for the Claude API?
- Anthropic’s own advice: use the smallest model that does the job, cache the context you send again and again, and send work that can wait through the Batch API. AIGROW API credit per million input / output tokens: Claude Opus 5.5 $1.60 / $8.00, Claude Fable 5.2 $3.20 / $16.00, Claude Sonnet 5.5 $0.80 / $4.00 and Claude Fable 5.1 (previous version) $4.00 / $20.00. That is up to 60% below list price.
Sources: platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing · platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/glossary. Read 20 October 2026.
The small print
What Anthropic’s pricing pages add to the headline rates.
- Claude Fable 5.2
- Cache read is 0.025x input on this model ($0.20). Cache write $10 (5 min) or $16 (1 h). Fast mode $16 / $80. Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates. Max output 128K.
- Claude Fable 5.1
- Legacy model, still available; the current Fable is Claude Fable 5.2, and Anthropic lists no retirement before 1 September 2027. Cache read is 0.025x input on this model ($0.25). Cache write $12.50 (5 min) or $20 (1 h). Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates.
- Claude Opus 5.5
- Cache read is 0.05x input on this model ($0.20). Cache write $5 (5 min) or $8 (1 h). Fast mode $8 / $40. Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates. Max output 128K.
- Claude Opus 5
- Legacy model, still available; Anthropic now points most work to Claude Opus 5.5 and lists no retirement before 24 July 2027. Cache write $6.25 (5 min) or $10 (1 h). Fast mode $10 / $50. Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates.
- Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Cache read is 0.05x input on this model ($0.10). Cache write $2.50 (5 min) or $4 (1 h). Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates. Max output 128K.
- Claude Sonnet 5
- Legacy model, still available; the current Sonnet is Claude Sonnet 5.5. The introductory $2 / $10 price became the standard price; the planned rise to $3 / $15 was cancelled. Cache write $2.50 (5 min) or $4 (1 h). Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates.
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Legacy model, still available; the current Sonnet is Claude Sonnet 5.5. Cache write $3.75 (5 min) or $6 (1 h). Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates.
- Claude Haiku 5.5
- Prices are for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. A longer prompt bills $0.50 / $2.50, cache read $0.05, and its length counts cache reads and writes. Cache write $0.125 (5 min) or $0.20 (1 h) up to 100,000 tokens. Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x, the higher band included. Its tokenizer counts the same text as about 30% more tokens than Claude Haiku 4.5. Max output 128K.
- Claude Haiku 4.5
- Legacy model, still available; Anthropic lists its retirement as not sooner than 15 October 2026, and the current Haiku is Claude Haiku 5.5. Cache write $1.25 (5 min) or $2 (1 h). Batch API 50% off.
A price page for each Claude model
Earlier generations
- Claude Fable 5.1 pricingReplaced by Claude Fable 5.2
- Claude Opus 5 pricingReplaced by Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude Sonnet 5 pricingReplaced by Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 pricingReplaced by Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Claude Haiku 4.5 pricingReplaced by Claude Haiku 5.5
Head to head
The comparisons with a Claude model on one side, each with both prices and the three jobs costed on each.
- Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Muse Wonder vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol
- Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-6 Luna
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Mistral Large 4 vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Grok 4.7 vs Claude Opus 5.5
- DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Terra
- Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Mistral Large 4 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Claude Fable 5.2 vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude Fable 5.2 vs GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Carbon
- Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Argon
- Gemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Muse Ember vs Claude Haiku 5.5
Comparisons with an earlier generation
- Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Opus 5
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5
- Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1
- Claude Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
Where the prices come from
Read on 12 November 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Pay up to 60% below list price
AIGROW API credit covers Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 (previous version) at published rates below the list prices above. The credit page lists each rate.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date · See the LLM leaderboard