Claude API Pricing (Anthropic)
We track 12 Claude models, 5 of them open to new users. The cheapest of those is Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/MTok input and $0.50/MTok output, and the most expensive is Claude Fable 5.2 at $8.00/MTok input and $40.00/MTok output.
Prices checked 13 Nov 2026 against Anthropic’s pricing page ↗
Subscriptions. Looking for Claude Pro, Max, Ultra or Team? See Claude plans → · Using Claude Code? See Claude Code pricing →
| Model | Input | Output | Cached in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5Budget | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.010 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Mid-tier | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.10 |
| Claude Fable 5.2Flagship | $8.00 | $40.00 | $0.20 |
Per 1M tokens · 5 current models + 7 legacy · Largest context 1M tokens · Batch discount 50% off on 5 of 5 current models
Model prices
| Model | Tier | Input | Output | Over size | Cached in | Batch in / out | Context | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5.2 | Flagship | $8.00 | $40.00 | — | $0.20 | $4.00 / $20.00 | 1M | Details for Claude Fable 5.2 |
Current top tier (Nov 9, 2026), for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work, at $8/$40 against Fable 5.1's $10/$50. Cache reads $0.20/MTok (0.025x input, the same multiplier as Fable 5.1). Batch $4/$20. Fast mode $16/$80. 128K max output; adaptive thinking is always on. Claude Mythos 5.2, which Anthropic says has the same capabilities, is limited to organizations verified through Anthropic's verification programs. | ||||||||
| Claude Opus 5.5 | Flagship | $4.00 | $20.00 | — | $0.20 | $2.00 / $10.00 | 1M | Details for Claude Opus 5.5 |
New Opus flagship (Sep 22, 2026), 20% cheaper than Opus 5 on both input and output. Cache reads $0.20/MTok (0.05x input, half the standard Claude multiplier). Fast mode $8/$40. 128K max output; thinking is always on, default effort medium. | ||||||||
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Flagship | $5.00 | $25.00 | — | — | $2.50 / $12.50 | 1M | Details for Claude Opus 4.7 |
Older Opus release. The 4.7-generation tokenizer bills roughly 30% more tokens than 4.6 for the same text. | ||||||||
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Mid-tier | $2.00 | $10.00 | — | $0.10 | $1.00 / $5.00 | 1M | Details for Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
Standard flagship (Sep 28, 2026), replacing Sonnet 5 at the same $2/$10. Cached read $0.10 (0.05x input, the same multiplier as Opus 5.5) since Oct 7, 2026, when Anthropic halved it from $0.20; cache writes unchanged at $2.50 (5m) and $4.00 (1h). 128K max output (300K on the Batch API, beta). Same tokenizer as Sonnet 5. Adaptive thinking, default effort high. No fast mode. | ||||||||
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Budget | $0.10 | $0.50 | over 100K: $0.50 / $2.50 | $0.010 | $0.050 / $0.25 | 1M | Details for Claude Haiku 5.5 |
Budget flagship (Oct 7, 2026), replacing Haiku 4.5 at a tenth of its price. Rates shown are for prompts up to 100K tokens: a prompt over 100K bills the whole request at $0.50/$2.50, and cache reads and writes count toward the threshold. Cached read $0.01 (0.1x input), 5m cache write $0.125, 1h cache write $0.20, all 5x above 100K. Batch $0.05/$0.25 ($0.25/$1.25 above 100K). Ties GPT-6 Luna's $0.10/$0.50 on short prompts. Newer tokenizer counts the same text as ~30% more tokens than Haiku 4.5. 128K max output (300K on the Batch API, beta). Adaptive thinking, default effort medium. | ||||||||
| Legacy models (7) | ||||||||
| Claude Fable 5.1 Legacy | Flagship | $10.00 | $50.00 | — | $0.25 | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | Details for Claude Fable 5.1 |
Previous top tier (Sep 1, 2026), replacing Fable 5 at the same $10/$50, and now legacy since Fable 5.2 (Nov 9, 2026) arrived at $8/$40. Cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/MTok (0.025x input, as on Fable 5.2, against 0.05x on Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 and 0.1x on the other Claude models). 128K max output; thinking is always on. | ||||||||
| Claude Fable 5 Legacy | Flagship | $10.00 | $50.00 | — | $1.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | Details for Claude Fable 5 |
Previous top tier (June 9, 2026), now legacy after Fable 5.1 replaced it at the same $10/$50. Cached read $1.00, four times Fable 5.1's rate. | ||||||||
| Claude Opus 5 Legacy | Flagship | $5.00 | $25.00 | — | $0.50 | $2.50 / $12.50 | 1M | Details for Claude Opus 5 |
Previous Opus flagship (July 24, 2026), superseded by Opus 5.5 at $4/$20. Launched at the same $5/$25 as Opus 4.8. Cached read $0.50. Fast mode $10/$50. Prompt-cache minimum 512 tokens. | ||||||||
| Claude Opus 4.8 Legacy | Flagship | $5.00 | $25.00 | — | $0.50 | $2.50 / $12.50 | 1M | Details for Claude Opus 4.8 |
Earlier Opus flagship (May 2026), superseded by Opus 5 at the same $5/$25 price and now legacy. Cached read $0.50. Fast mode $10/$50 until Nov 30, 2026, when Anthropic removes it (deprecated Oct 30, 2026). | ||||||||
| Claude Sonnet 5 Legacy | Mid-tier | $2.00 | $10.00 | — | $0.20 | $1.00 / $5.00 | 1M | Details for Claude Sonnet 5 |
Previous Standard flagship, now legacy after Sonnet 5.5 replaced it on Sep 28, 2026 at the same $2/$10. That launch rate became the standard price on Aug 10, 2026, when Anthropic cancelled the scheduled Sep 1 rise to $3/$15. Cached read $0.20, 5m cache write $2.50, 1h cache write $4.00. New tokenizer bills ~30% more tokens than Sonnet 4.6 (1.0-1.35x). Full 1M context at standard rates. | ||||||||
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Legacy | Mid-tier | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | $1.50 / $7.50 | 1M | Details for Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
Older Sonnet, superseded by Sonnet 5 and now Sonnet 5.5. Still strong for production workloads, and on the older tokenizer, so the same text counts as fewer tokens than on Sonnet 5.x. | ||||||||
| Claude Haiku 4.5 Legacy | Budget | $1.00 | $5.00 | — | $0.10 | $0.50 / $2.50 | 200K | Details for Claude Haiku 4.5 |
Previous budget model, now legacy after Haiku 5.5 replaced it on Oct 7, 2026. Haiku 5.5 is cheaper at every prompt length: a tenth of the price up to 100K tokens and half above. Cached read $0.10, 5m cache write $1.25, 1h cache write $2.00. 64K max output. On the older tokenizer, so the same text counts as fewer tokens than on Haiku 5.5. | ||||||||
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Subscription or API?
What each plan’s monthly price buys on the API, as arithmetic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 at list rates of $2.00 input and $10.00 output per 1M tokens. Plans are priced on monthly billing. This says nothing about which models a plan includes or how much usage it allows.
| Plan | Monthly price | Chat mix | Coding mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Pro | $20 | about 5.0 million tokens | at most about 15 million tokens |
| Claude Max | $100 | about 25 million tokens | at most about 74 million tokens |
| Claude Ultra | $200 | about 50 million tokens | at most about 149 million tokens |
UK prices as Anthropic shows them. The token figures use the US price. Subscription prices aren’t converted.
The vendor sets local prices. Where we haven’t seen Anthropic’s price in your currency, it stays in US dollars.
- Chat mix: 3 input tokens for every output token, no caching.
- Coding mix: 10 input tokens for every output token, with 80% of the input billed at the cached-input price. Cache-write costs aren’t in our data and aren’t included, so the API cost is a floor and the token figure a ceiling.
- Tokens are input plus output. Figures use base rates, with no long-prompt rate and no batch discount, because there is no request size to price.
Plans checked 11 Nov 2026. API prices checked 13 Nov 2026.
What would Claude cost you?
Preset to Anthropic’s current models. Adjust to your usage.
- 1Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.0004 per request$17.50
- 2Claude Sonnet 5.5 $0.0070 per request$350.00
- 3Claude Opus 5.5 $0.014 per request$700.00
- 4Claude Opus 4.7 $0.018 per request$875.00
- 5Claude Fable 5.2 $0.028 per request$1,400
50,000 requests × (1,500 in + 400 out). List prices; excludes tax and cache-write fees.
What Claude costs for real jobs
Three jobs priced for Anthropic’s budget, mid-tier and flagship models.
Support replies
1,000 replies a day for 30 days. 30,000 requests, 1,500 input and 300 output tokens each.
| Model | List price | Batch |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5Budget | $9.00 | $4.50 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Mid-tier | $180.00 | $90.00 |
| Claude Fable 5.2Flagship | $720.00 | $360.00 |
Coding agent session
One session of 40 requests that mostly re-read the same code. 40 requests, 60,000 input and 1,500 output tokens each; where a cached price exists, 80% of the input is billed at it.
| Model | List price | Batch | Cached (80% of input) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5Budget | $0.27 | $0.14 | $0.097 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Mid-tier | $5.40 | $2.70 | $1.75 |
| Claude Fable 5.2Flagship | $21.60 | $10.80 | $6.62 |
Long document review
50 documents a month. 50 requests, 120,000 input and 2,000 output tokens each.
| Model | List price | Batch |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5Budget | $3.25 Billed at the long-prompt rate; batch and cache discounts don't apply. | – |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Mid-tier | $13.00 | $6.50 |
| Claude Fable 5.2Flagship | $52.00 | $26.00 |
Totals are for all the requests in each example, in US dollars, from the same cost function as the calculator above.
Is there a free API tier?
Anthropic’s pricing page lists no free API tier.
It says: “New users receive free credits to test the API.”
Checked 12 Nov 2026 on Anthropic’s pricing page ↗.
How Claude compares
Our featured model in each tier, at list prices per million tokens (input / output).
| Tier | Claude | OpenAI | Gemini |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budget | Claude Haiku 5.5$0.10 / $0.50 | GPT-6 Luna$0.10 / $0.50 | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite$0.30 / $2.50 |
| Mid-tier | Claude Sonnet 5.5$2.00 / $10.00 | GPT-6.1 Sol$2.00 / $10.00 | Gemini 3.8 FlashInput$0.75 until 31 Dec 2026; $1.50 from 1 Jan 2027Output$3.75 until 31 Dec 2026; $7.50 from 1 Jan 2027 |
| Flagship | Claude Fable 5.2$8.00 / $40.00 | GPT-6 Astra$10.00 / $50.00 | Gemini 4 CarbonInput$2.00 until 30 Nov 2026; $4.00 from 1 Dec 2026Output$10.00 until 30 Nov 2026; $20.00 from 1 Dec 2026 |
Latest launches and price changes
- 9 Nov 2026 · launch · Claude Fable 5.2
Claude pricing FAQ
What is the cheapest Claude model?
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the cheapest current Claude model, at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, or $0.050 / $0.25 with the 50% batch discount.
How much does the Claude API cost?
The Claude API charges per token, so the cost depends on how much you send and receive. Input / output per million tokens: Budget Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.10 / $0.50, Mid-tier Claude Sonnet 5.5 $2.00 / $10.00 and Flagship Claude Fable 5.2 $8.00 / $40.00. Batch requests cost 50% less on the models that offer it. The calculator on this page prices your own workload.
Which Claude model should I use?
Our featured picks are Budget: Claude Haiku 5.5, Mid-tier: Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Flagship: Claude Fable 5.2. To spend less, pick the tier that fits the job and its cheapest model: For the hardest work, flagship models: Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Fable 5.2 (from $4.00 / $20.00 for Claude Opus 5.5). For everyday work, mid-tier models: Claude Sonnet 5.5 ($2.00 / $10.00). For high-volume, simple jobs, budget models: Claude Haiku 5.5 ($0.10 / $0.50). Prices are input / output per million tokens. Tiers group models by capability, not price, so price your own workload in the calculator on this page.
Does Claude offer batch or caching discounts?
Batch: 50% off input and output on all 5 current models, so Claude Haiku 5.5 drops from $0.10 / $0.50 to $0.050 / $0.25 per million tokens. Prompt caching: reading cached input costs 2.5% to 10% of the input price on 4 of 5 current models; Claude Haiku 5.5's $0.10 input falls to $0.010 per million tokens when read from the cache.
What context window do Claude models have?
All 5 current Claude models have a 1M-token context window. A request's prompt and its output together must fit in the window.
What does the Claude API cost per person each month?
It depends on how much each person uses it. At list prices, an occasional user (3 short requests a working day) costs about $0.013 a month on Claude Haiku 5.5, and a daily power user (40 longer requests a day) about $24.64 on Claude Sonnet 5.5. The cost-per-seat calculator works it out for a whole team.
Is the Claude API cheaper than the ChatGPT API?
It depends on the tier, so here is each one. Budget: Claude Haiku 5.5 ($0.10 / $0.50) against GPT-6 Luna ($0.10 / $0.50) is the same price on input and output. Mid-tier: Claude Sonnet 5.5 ($2.00 / $10.00) against GPT-6.1 Sol ($2.00 / $10.00) is the same price on input and output. Flagship: Claude Fable 5.2 ($8.00 / $40.00) against GPT-6 Astra ($10.00 / $50.00) is cheaper on input and output. Prices are input / output per million tokens at list price, and each verdict uses today’s prices. We compare one featured model per tier, not every model.
Is Claude's API free?
Anthropic’s pricing page lists no free API tier. It says: “New users receive free credits to test the API.” Checked 12 Nov 2026 on Anthropic’s pricing page.
How often do Claude API prices change?
We check Anthropic's pricing page every day, and last re-verified every price on 13 Nov 2026. Since Feb 2026 we have recorded 2 price cuts and 1 price rise on Claude models, the latest on 7 Oct 2026, plus 10 launches. The price history chart on this page shows how each tier has moved.
Price history
Input price of the cheapest Claude model in each tier, month by month, among the models on today’s price list.
View as a table
| Month | Flagship | Mid-tier | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | — | $3.00 | $0.80 |
| Mar 2026 | — | $3.00 | $1.00 |
| Apr 2026 | — | $3.00 | $1.00 |
| May 2026 | $5.00 | $3.00 | $1.00 |
| Jun 2026 | $5.00 | $3.00 | $1.00 |
| Jul 2026 | $5.00 | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Aug 2026 | $5.00 | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Sep 2026 | $4.00 | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Oct 2026 | $4.00 | $2.00 | $0.10 |
| Nov 2026 | $4.00 | $2.00 | $0.10 |
Launches and price changes
- Haiku 4.5: input +25%, output +25%▲ Price rise
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 — same $5/$25 price but new tokenizer uses up to 35% more tokensLaunch
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8 — same $5/$25 price; new tokenizer carried over from 4.7Launch
- Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 ($10/$50, 1M context) — public Mythos-class model, new top tier above OpusLaunch
- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 now tracked at its effective $2/$10 rate, launched as introductory pricing and made permanent on Aug 11, 2026; adaptive thinking on by defaultLaunch
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 ($5/$25, 1M context) — new Opus flagship at the same price as Opus 4.8, with fast mode at $10/$50 and a 512-token prompt-cache minimumLaunch
- Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's $2/$10 launch rate permanent — the scheduled Sep 1 increase to $3/$15 will not occur. Sonnet 5 was previously tracked at its $3/$15 list price▼ Price cut
- Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 at the same $10/$50 as Fable 5, with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/MTok; Fable 5 moves to legacyLaunch
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 (1M context), 20% below Opus 5 on both input and output, with cache reads at $0.20/MTok (0.05x input) and fast mode at $8/$40. Opus 5 stays available at $5/$25Launch
- Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 at $2/$10 (1M context), the same price as the Sonnet 5 it replacesLaunch
- Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/$0.50 for prompts up to 100K tokens, a tenth of Haiku 4.5's $1/$5. A prompt over 100K tokens, cache reads and writes included, bills the whole request at $0.50/$2.50. 1M context, 128K max output, 50% batch discount. It ties GPT-6 Luna on short prompts; Haiku 4.5 moves to legacyLaunch
- Anthropic halves Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache reads from $0.20 to $0.10/MTok (0.05x input, the same multiplier as Opus 5.5). Token rates and cache writes are unchanged; Sonnet 5.5 now matches GPT-6.1 Sol's $0.10 cached input▼ Price cut
- Claude Fable 5.2: Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.2 at $8/$40 (1M context), below Fable 5.1's $10/$50, with cache reads at $0.20/MTok and fast mode at $16/$80. Fable 5.1 moves to legacyLaunch