Claude Sonnet 5 price: $2 / $10 per million tokens
What Claude Sonnet 5 costs through the API: $2 per million input tokens, $10 output, a 1,000,000-token context window. Real monthly cost, comparison and price history.
Data as of 2026-11-11.
Input$2
Output$10
Context1,000,000 tokens
per million tokens
What a month of work costs
Three typical workloads, calculated at the current price:
- Support assistant (10M tokens read, 2M written) $40 per month
- Content drafting (5M read, 5M written) $60 per month
- Long-document analysis (50M read, 1M written) $110 per month
Compared with similar models
| Model | Input | Output | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2 | $10 | 1,000,000 | |
| GPT-6 Sol | $2 | $10 | 1,050,000 | = |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2 | $10 | 1,000,000 | = |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | $2 | $10 | 1,050,000 | = |
| Gemini 4 Argon | $2 | $10 | 1,048,576 | = |
Price history
The price has not changed since we started tracking it (2026-09-09).
Source: OpenRouter price list, updated automatically every day. Prices exclude VAT.