Claude Sonnet 5 API Pricing & Cost Calculator
Sonnet 5 is the new value-pick coding workhorse: same capability tier as Sonnet 4.6 at a meaningful discount. With 90% cache and a 50% batch API, long agentic loops stay affordable.
Claude Sonnet 5 succeeds Sonnet 4.6 as Anthropic's workhorse coding and agentic model, sitting between Claude Opus 5 and the rest of the Claude lineup.
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Cost Comparison
Based on 100,000 input tokens (50% cached), 5,000 output tokens, and 100 requests.
How this is calculated
Claude Sonnet 5 is priced at $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens - a third cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6's $3.00/$15.00 across the board. It supports a 90% prompt caching discount ($0.20 per million) and a 50% batch discount ($1.00 per million inputs, $5.00 per million outputs) via Anthropic's Message Batches API.
Verdict
Sonnet 5 is the new value-pick coding workhorse: same capability tier as Sonnet 4.6 at a meaningful discount. With 90% cache and a 50% batch API, long agentic loops stay affordable.
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