Claude API pricing: every model, every rate
Anthropic prices Claude by capability tier rather than by size. Below is the full rate card as it actually bills — including the legacy generations still running in production.
claude-opus-5. Rates checked 2026-09-16.Full rate card
38 billable models in total, 17 of them text models. On those text models: 13 carry a rate verified against the vendor's own published pricing, the rest are gateway rates only. USD per 1M tokens, checked 2026-09-16.
| Model | Input | Output | Out/In | Official (in / out) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
claude-3-opus-20240229 | $7.5 | — | $15 / $75 -50.0% | |
claude-4-opus | $7.5 | $37.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-opus-4-1-20250805 | $7.5 | $37.5 | 5.0× | $15 / $75 -50.0% |
claude-opus-4-1-20250805-thinking | $7.5 | $37.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-opus-4-20250514 | $7.5 | $37.5 | 5.0× | $15 / $75 -50.0% |
claude-opus-4-20250514-thinking | $7.5 | $37.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-fable-5 | $5 | $25 | 5.0× | $10 / $50 -50.0% |
claude-fable-5-1 | $5 | $25 | 5.0× | $10 / $50 -50.0% |
claude-2.0 | $4 | — | not verified | |
claude-2.1 | $4 | — | not verified | |
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 | $2.5 | $12.5 | 5.0× | $5 / $25 -50.0% |
claude-opus-4-6 | $2.5 | $12.5 | 5.0× | $5 / $25 -50.0% |
claude-opus-4-6-thinking | $2.5 | $12.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-opus-4-7 | $2.5 | $12.5 | 5.0× | $5 / $25 -50.0% |
claude-opus-4-7-thinking | $2.5 | $12.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-opus-4-8 | $2.5 | $12.5 | 5.0× | $5 / $25 -50.0% |
claude-opus-5 | $2.5 | $12.5 | 5.0× | $5 / $25 -50.0% |
global.anthropic.claude-opus-4-6-v1 | $2.5 | $12.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-3-7-sonnet | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | $3 / $15 -50.0% |
claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-3-7-sonnet-thinking | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-3-sonnet-20240229 | $1.5 | — | $3 / $15 -50.0% | |
claude-3.7-sonnet-thinking | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-4-sonnet-20250514 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-sonnet-4-20250514-thinking | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | $3 / $15 -50.0% |
claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-thinking | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-sonnet-4-6 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | $3 / $15 -50.0% |
claude-sonnet-5 | $1 | $5 | 5.0× | $2 / $10 -50.0% |
claude-instant-1 | $0.815 | — | not verified | |
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | $0.5 | $2.5 | 5.0× | $1 / $5 -50.0% |
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001-thinking | $0.5 | $2.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 | $0.4 | $2 | 5.0× | $0.8 / $4 -50.0% |
claude-1-100k | $0.25 | — | not verified | |
claude-3-haiku-20240307 | $0.125 | — | $0.25 / $1.25 -50.0% |
Output is billed at a multiple of input on most models. The Out/In column is that multiple — it matters more than the input price once output dominates your bill.
Across 17 priced text models the blended rate spans $3 (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) to $45 (claude-opus-4-20250514) per 1M tokens — a 15× spread. Picking the wrong tier is usually the single most expensive mistake here.
What Anthropic costs at three usage levels
Priced on claude-sonnet-5 at $1 in / $5 out; claude-opus-5 at $2.5 in / $12.5 out per 1M tokens, with a 5:1 input-to-output ratio — roughly what an
interactive workload produces.
| Usage level | Tokens per month (in / out) | Lowest-cost tierclaude-sonnet-5 | Median-rate modelclaude-opus-5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light pilot or side project | 5M / 1M | $10.00 | $25.00 |
| Working one product in production | 50M / 10M | $100.00 | $250.00 |
| Heavy high-volume pipeline | 500M / 100M | $1,000.00 | $2,500.00 |
The first column is this vendor's lowest-cost tier; the second is the model closest to its median rate, which is nearer what a real deployment bills. Swap in your own token split in the calculator.
Same budget, other vendors
3 models from other vendors priced within 35% of
claude-opus-5 on a blended rate — the cheapest, the dearest and one in between.
This is the horizontal check a single-vendor pricing page cannot give you.
| Model | Vendor | In / out per 1M | vs this |
|---|---|---|---|
Kimi-K2-Instruct | Moonshot | $2 / $8 | −33.3% |
qwen3-coder | Alibaba | $3 / $12 | same |
deepseek-v4-pro-202606 | DeepSeek | $4.5 / $13.5 | +20.0% |
Blended comparison (input + output per 1M tokens). Price is one axis — these are the models worth testing side by side at this budget, not interchangeable substitutes.
Why the output rate decides the bill
Across the 17 priced Anthropic text models, output bills at the same 5.0× the input rate on every one of them. Output tokens are what a chat or agent turn produces — on a typical workload they are the smaller half of the token count but the larger half of the bill.
Worked out: at a 5.0× multiple, a job whose token count is 80% input still spends 56% of its cost on the output it generates. Comparing vendors on the input rate alone hides that.
What Anthropic is good at
Claude is the default choice for agentic coding, long-context document work, and anything where instruction-following quality matters more than raw token cost.
Detailed pages for Anthropic models
The models we cover in depth, each with worked cost at three usage levels and a comparison against similarly priced alternatives.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 — $0.5 / $2.5 per 1M tokens
- Claude Sonnet 5 — $1 / $5 per 1M tokens
- Claude Opus 5 — $2.5 / $12.5 per 1M tokens
- Claude Fable 5 — $5 / $25 per 1M tokens
Other vendors
Every rate card here is built the same way, from the same price snapshot (2026-09-16), so the numbers are comparable across vendors:
OpenAI · Google · DeepSeek · Alibaba · xAI · Zhipu · Moonshot · Meta · MiniMax · ByteDance
FAQ
How much does Anthropic charge per million tokens?
Across the 17 priced text models in this catalogue, the blended rate (input plus output per 1M tokens) runs from $3 on claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 to $45 on claude-opus-4-20250514, as of 2026-09-16. The spread is what matters: choosing the wrong tier inside one vendor usually costs more than switching vendor.
What is the cheapest Anthropic model for high-volume work?
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 is the lowest blended rate here at $0.5 input and $2.5 output per 1M tokens. On a Heavy workload — 500M input and 100M output tokens a month — that bills about $500.00. At the other end, the same workload on claude-opus-4-20250514 costs about $7,500.00.
Is Anthropic cheaper through a gateway than buying direct?
For the 13 models where a published Anthropic list price could be verified, the gateway rate is below list by between 50% and 50%, checked 2026-09-16. The rate is not fixed — it moves with upstream promotions — and several models in this catalogue have no published list price at all, so no comparison is claimed for them.
How does output pricing change a Anthropic bill?
Output is billed at a multiple of input on every model priced here, so the input rate alone never predicts the bill. A workload that is mostly input tokens still lands most of its cost on the output column once that multiple is applied. Price your own in/out split in the calculator rather than extrapolating from the headline input rate.
Is Sonnet 5 or Opus 5 the better default for an agent loop?
Purely on price, Sonnet 5 is the default: it bills at roughly half of Opus 5 on both input and output. Opus 5 only earns its premium on turns where a wrong answer costs more than the tokens do. The common pattern is Opus 5 for planning and Sonnet 5 for the execution steps it emits.
See all 827 models → or use the cost calculator with your own token split.