Claude API pricing: 5 models, per token and per task
The list price of every Anthropic model on our list, read from Anthropic’s own pricing page, next to what a passing answer cost on the AIGROW small-business benchmark and what three everyday jobs cost on each.
US dollars per million tokens, at the standard rate. No reseller prices.
- Claude Fable 5.1
- $10 / $50
- Claude Opus 5
- $5 / $25
- Claude Sonnet 5
- $2 / $10
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
- $3 / $15
- Claude Haiku 4.5
- $1 / $5
Input / output list price per million tokens.
Anthropic prices the 5 models on our list from Claude Haiku 4.5 at $1 in and $5 out per million tokens to Claude Fable 5.1 at $10 in and $50 out. On the AIGROW small-business benchmark Claude Sonnet 5 shared the best record, 17 of 20 tasks passed, at the lowest cost: $6.70 per thousand passes.
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 5.1Flagships | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.25 | 1M | 17 of 20 | $33.11 |
| Claude Opus 5Flagships | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 17 of 20 | $16.89 |
| Claude Sonnet 5Workhorses | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.20 | 1M | 17 of 20 | $6.70 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6Workhorses | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | 1M | 15 of 20 | $11.24 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5Small and fast | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.10 | 200K | 7 of 20 | $6.62 |
Where a model ran on a subscription, its cost per pass is worked from the list price above rather than billed usage.
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 5.1 | $50.00 | $300 | $268 |
| Claude Opus 5 | $25.00 | $150 | $160 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $10.00 | $60.00 | $64.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $15.00 | $90.00 | $96.00 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $5.00 | $30.00 | $32.00 |
- 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.
The small print
What Anthropic’s pricing pages add to the headline rates.
- Claude Fable 5.1
- 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 (inference_geo) bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates.
- Claude Opus 5
- Cache write $6.25 (5 min) or $10 (1 h). Fast mode $10 / $50. Batch API 50% off. US-only inference (inference_geo) bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates.
- Claude Sonnet 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 (inference_geo) bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates.
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Legacy model, still available. Cache write $3.75 (5 min) or $6 (1 h). Batch API 50% off. US-only inference (inference_geo) bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates.
- Claude Haiku 4.5
- Cache write $1.25 (5 min) or $2 (1 h). Batch API 50% off.
Head to head
The comparisons with a Claude model on one side, each with both prices and the three jobs costed on each.
- GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1
- Claude Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5
- Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol
- Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Grok 4.7 vs Claude Opus 5
- DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Opus 5
- Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 5
- Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.6 Terra
- Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Claude Sonnet 5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Claude Sonnet 5 vs Claude Opus 5
- Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5.6 Luna
- Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5.4 mini
Where the prices come from
Read on 22 September 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 a quarter of list price
AIGROW API credit is metered at the makers’ list prices, like the ones above, and $25 buys $100 of usage. The credit page lists the models it covers.
Prices checked 22 September 2026