Claude Sonnet 5 API pricing
The daily driver — near-flagship coding quality at a fifth of Opus's output rate. Available at about 50% below official list.
| Route | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| Official list price | $2 | $10 |
| Discounted route | $1 | $5 |
USD, standard tier, verified 2026-09-16.
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Note: Anthropic confirmed $2/$10 as the standard price on 2026-09-01; the previously scheduled rise to $3/$15 was cancelled.
Specifications
| Vendor | Anthropic |
| Context window | 1M |
| Max output | 128K |
| Category | US frontier |
What Claude Sonnet 5 costs at your volume
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Setting it up
- Claude Code — set the base URL via environment variables
- Cursor — override the API endpoint in settings
- OpenAI / Anthropic SDK — one
base_urlargument