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Anthropic API pricing: every model compared
Anthropic offers 16 models through its API in our data, priced from $0.10 to $15 per million input tokens. The newest is Claude Haiku 5.5, first listed on 2026-10-07.
- Models
- 16
- Cheapest input
- $0.10
- Priciest input
- $15
- Largest context
- 1,000,000
- With caching
- all
- Open weights
- none
Largest context
Claude Fable 5Anthropic1,000,000 tokensLine-up
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 | $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 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | $5 | $25 | 1,000,000 | 2026-04-16 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3 | $15 | 1,000,000 | 2026-02-17 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $5 | $25 | 1,000,000 | 2026-02-04 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $5 | $25 | 200,000 | 2025-11-24 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1 | $5 | 200,000 | 2025-10-15 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3 | $15 | 1,000,000 | 2025-09-29 |
| Claude Opus 4.1 | $15 | $75 | 200,000 | 2025-08-05 |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | $3 | $15 | 200,000 | 2025-05-22 |
Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens, newest first. Release dates are when our source first listed the model.
Overview
Anthropic’s pricing at a glance
The spread between Anthropic’s cheapest and most expensive model is large: Claude Opus 4.1 costs 150× more per input token than Claude Haiku 5.5. Picking the smallest model that does the job well is usually the biggest saving available, ahead of any discount.
All of the line-up has a cached-input price, which helps chatbots and agents that resend the same instructions. 15 of 16 can run through a batch API at a discount, for work that can wait up to a day. All accept images as input.
FAQ
Anthropic API questions
How much does the Anthropic API cost?
Anthropic's 16 models range from $0.10 to $15 per million input tokens, and output costs more than input on almost every model. The exact bill depends on your token volumes, which you can estimate in the LLM cost calculator.
What is Anthropic's cheapest model?
By blended price (three parts input to one part output) it is Claude Haiku 5.5, at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens. The most expensive is Claude Opus 4.1.
Which Anthropic model has the largest context window?
Claude Fable 5, with 1,000,000 tokens per request.
Does Anthropic offer prompt caching or batch discounts?
In our data, all of Anthropic's models have a published cached-input price and 15 of 16 have a published batch price. Both can cut costs substantially for repeated prompts or work that can wait.