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Claude Sonnet 5.5 pricing, context window and specs
Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, and reads up to 1,000,000 tokens per request. By blended price it is number 4 of 16 from cheapest in Anthropic's current line-up.
- Input / 1M
- $2
- Output / 1M
- $10
- Cached / 1M
- $0.10
- Context
- 1,000,000
- Max output
- 128,000
- Released
- 2026-09-28
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Pricing
Claude Sonnet 5.5 API pricing
| Price per 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $2 | $10 |
| Cached input (read) | $0.10 | – |
| Batch API | $1 | $5 |
Output costs 5.0× the input price, so long replies drive the bill more than long prompts. If your requests share a long fixed prefix, such as a system prompt or tool definitions, caching cuts that part to 5% of the normal input price.
Examples
What Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs in practice
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Requests/day | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot50% cached | 1,500 / 400 | 1,000 | $0.00558 | $169.57 |
| RAG app20% cached | 6,000 / 500 | 500 | $0.0147 | $223.87 |
| Coding agent80% cached | 40,000 / 2,000 | 200 | $0.0392 | $238.47 |
| Document summariserbatch | 8,000 / 600 | 300 | $0.011 | $100.38 |
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Context
Context window
Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens per request, roughly 750,000 English words or 1,500 pages. That budget is shared between your prompt and the reply, and a single reply is capped at 128,000 tokens.
Filling the whole window with one prompt costs about $2.00 at list price, so for repeated long-document work, retrieval (sending only the relevant parts) or prompt caching is usually much cheaper.
Features
Capabilities
- Image input
- Yes
- Tool / function calling
- Yes
- Reasoning mode
- Yes
- Prompt caching
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Accepts
- text, image, file
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not published
As declared by the provider’s API. It shows a feature exists, not how well it works.
Anthropic
Where Claude Sonnet 5.5 sits in Anthropic’s line-up
Ranked by blended price (three parts input to one part output, $4 per 1M for Claude Sonnet 5.5), it is number 4 of 16 from cheapest of Anthropic’s 16 priced models. See every Anthropic model and price
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1,000,000 | 2026-10-07 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 (this page) | $2 | $10 | 1,000,000 | 2026-09-28 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4 | $20 | 1,000,000 | 2026-09-22 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | $10 | $50 | 1,000,000 | 2026-09-01 |
| Claude Opus 5 | $5 | $25 | 1,000,000 | 2026-07-24 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2 | $10 | 1,000,000 | 2026-06-30 |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10 | $50 | 1,000,000 | 2026-06-09 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5 | $25 | 1,000,000 | 2026-05-27 |
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FAQ
Claude Sonnet 5.5 questions
How much does Claude Sonnet 5.5 cost?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.10. A typical chatbot reply (1,500 tokens in, 400 out) costs about $0.007. Use the LLM cost calculator for your own workload.
What is Claude Sonnet 5.5's context window?
1,000,000 tokens, about 750,000 English words or 1,500 printed pages, shared between your prompt and the reply. A single reply can be up to 128,000 tokens.
Does Claude Sonnet 5.5 support prompt caching and batch requests?
Yes, cached input is billed at $0.10 per million tokens (5% of the normal input price). A batch API is available at $1 input and $5 output per million tokens.
What are cheaper alternatives to Claude Sonnet 5.5?
With the same essentials (image input and tool calling), the cheapest options are Qwen3.6 Flash (89% cheaper), GLM 4.6V (89% cheaper), GPT-5.6 Luna (89% cheaper). Cheaper doesn't mean equivalent, so test them on your own prompts.
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 open source?
No, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is only available through Anthropic's API and partners; its weights aren't published.