Provider pricing
Anthropic AI API pricing
Anthropic has 37 priced models in the public snapshot. For 1,000 input and 500 output tokens, Claude Haiku 5.5 has the lowest recorded request cost at $0.00035, with $0.1 input and $0.5 output per million tokens.
Best for
Teams that need deep reasoning, long-context processing, or safety-critical applications.
Strengths
- 1M token context window on Opus — largest among closed-source models
- Best-in-class instruction following and safety alignment
- Up to 90% discount on cached prompts
- Strong at long-form analysis, coding, and document processing
Tracked Anthropic models
| Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Tier | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1,000,000 | Premium | Mythos-class flagship — SOTA coding, vision, long-horizon agentic work |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1,000,000 | Premium | Previous Anthropic flagship — frontier reasoning, agentic coding, 1M context |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1,000,000 | Premium | Frontier reasoning, agentic coding, long-context analysis |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1,000,000 | Premium | Deep reasoning, long documents, coding |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200,000 | Premium | Previous-gen flagship, stable versioned |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200,000 | Flagship | Production workhorse, instruction following |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200,000 | Flagship | Recommended default, strong coding |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200,000 | Budget | Classification, chat, extraction |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4.00 | $20.00 | 1,000,000 | Premium | Frontier agentic coding and long-horizon reasoning |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.100 | $0.500 | 1,000,000 | Budget | Low-cost Claude for high-volume agents at 1M context |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1,000,000 | Flagship | Balanced coding, agents and RAG at 1M context |
| Claude 3 Sonnet | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200,000 | Mid-tier | Original Claude 3 Sonnet — balanced reasoning and cost |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200,000 | Flagship | Previous-gen workhorse — coding, vision, and tool use |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | $0.800 | $4.00 | 200,000 | Budget | Fast, affordable Claude 3.5 for chat and classification |
| Claude 3 Opus | $15.00 | $75.00 | 200,000 | Premium | Original Opus flagship — complex reasoning and writing |
| Claude 3 Haiku | $0.250 | $1.25 | 200,000 | Budget | Cheapest Claude 3 — high-volume chat and extraction |
| Claude Sonnet 4.7 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1,000,000 | Flagship | Latest Sonnet — 1M context, stronger coding and tool use |
| Claude Haiku 4.6 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200,000 | Budget | Faster Haiku refresh — chat, classification, extraction |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200,000 | Flagship | Hybrid reasoning Sonnet 3.7 with extended thinking mode |
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the Anthropic API cost?
Anthropic has 37 priced models in the public snapshot. For 1,000 input and 500 output tokens, Claude Haiku 5.5 has the lowest recorded request cost at $0.00035, with $0.1 input and $0.5 output per million tokens.
Which Anthropic model is cheapest?
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the lowest-cost recorded model for the 1,000-input/500-output example. Prices are $0.1 input and $0.5 output per million tokens; different workloads may change the ranking.
Does Anthropic have cached or batch prices?
Cached input: $0.01 per million tokens under the existing provider cache rules. Batch: $0.05 input and $0.25 output per million tokens. Eligibility and cache-write charges depend on the provider; these discounts are not automatically stacked.
How often are provider prices verified?
The live pricing table synchronizes stored model records daily; public file snapshots update when the site is rebuilt. Synchronization is not independent provider verification. Snapshot updated 2026-10-31; only explicit per-model dates are verification records.