Anthropic · API model
Claude Sonnet 5
API id claude-sonnet-5 prices checked
- Input
- $2.00/1M
- Output
- $10.00/1M
- Context
- 1Mtokens
- Max output
- 128Ktokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not disclosed
- Typical request
- $0.007
Pricing
US dollars per 1 million tokens. A typical request (1,000 input + 500 output tokens) costs $0.007 at standard rates.
| Rate | Input | Cached input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $2.00 | $0.20 | $10.00 |
| BatchAsynchronous, results within 24 hours | $1.00 | — | $5.00 |
Capabilities and limits
| Context window | 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Max output | 128K tokens |
| Input | TextImagesFiles (PDF) |
| Output | Text |
| Reasoning | Adjustable effort |
| Tool use | Yes |
| Structured output (JSON) | Yes |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not disclosed by the vendor |
Lifecycle status
No deprecation or shutdown date announced on Anthropic's official deprecations page as of Oct 23, 2026.
Change history
Launches, price changes and retirements for Claude Sonnet 5, newest first, each linked to the vendor's notice.
Claude Sonnet 5 keeps $2 / $10; planned increase cancelled
The introductory price became the standard price. The increase to $3 / $15 scheduled for September 1, 2026 did not happen.
Claude Sonnet 5 launched at introductory $2 / $10
1M-token context window and 128K max output tokens.
Benchmarks and speed
Not collected yet. Scores will come only from independent leaderboards, each shown with its source and test date.
Planned: GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench Verified, AIME 2025, LMArena Elo, output speed and time to first token.
Where these numbers come from
Every value is an observation with a source and a date. independent is a third-party catalog, vendor is the model maker's own page, derived is our calculation.
| Field | Value | Source | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard price, input / output | $2.00 / $10.00 | independentOpenRouter | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Standard price, input / output | $2.00 / $10.00 | independentLiteLLM | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Standard price, input / output | $2.00 / $10.00 | vendorAnthropic pricing docs | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Cached input | $0.20 | independentOpenRouter | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Batch | $1.00 / $5.00 | vendorAnthropic pricing docs | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | independentOpenRouter | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Max output | 128,000 | independentOpenRouter | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Release date | 2026-06-30 | independentOpenRouter | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Input types, reasoning, tools, JSON | text, image, file; effort; yes; yes | independentOpenRouter | Sep 13, 2026 |
| Typical request | $0.007 | derivedCalculated: 1,000 in + 500 out | Sep 13, 2026 |