API PRICES
Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5
Provider prices, cheapest first
Price comparison
- Official (cash)
- Input 2 / output 10 USD/million tokensAnthropic ·
- Lowest inference provider (cash)
- Input 2 / output 10 USD/million tokensOpenRouter · Aggregator · same as official ·
- Lowest relay (credit)
- Not listed
Official and inference-provider prices are cash; relay prices are site credit (USD credit or CNY credit), a different unit, compared separately. Relay prices are per million total tokens at 75% input and 25% output.
Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5 official price: input 2, output 10 USD per million tokens (Anthropic, observed 2026-10-17). Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 2, output 10 USD per million tokens. 536 sites have comparable prices; 910 sites list this model.
Price ranges per million tokens
Official cash prices · Lowest 4 · median 4 · highest 4 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 4 · median 4 · highest 4 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
Official price
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 2 | 10 | 0.2 | 2.5 | USD / 1M tokens | Official source |
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Inference providers
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source | vs official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 2 | 10 | 0.2 | 2.5 | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | Input 0% · Output 0% |
Inference provider prices at least 10% above official (1)
Inference providers
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source | vs official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | 3 | 15 | — | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | Input 50% higher · Output 50% higher |
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Showing: Related variants。These are special editions of the model (thinking, max, search, batch, long context, free, etc.). They are priced differently from the base model, so they are listed separately and not ranked. Names that only add an effort level such as low, high or nothinking are compared with the base model. Back to the default ranking
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Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| — | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude-code stable [machine translation]Group on site: Claude-code稳定 Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Low-price top choice | mixed az, max, kiro and other resources, focused on stability [machine translation]Original: 低价首选丨混合az、max、kiro等资源，主打稳定 Related variant: claude-sonnet-5-thinking (-thinking · thinking edition) Operator pending verification | 2 | 10 | 0.2 | 4 | Full prices and sources |
| — | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude-code stable-A [machine translation]Group on site: Claude-code稳定-A Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Kirocode enterprise account [machine translation]Original: Kirocode企业号 Related variant: claude-sonnet-5-thinking (-thinking · thinking edition) Operator pending verification | 2 | 10 | 0.2 | 4 | Full prices and sources |
| — | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude-code stable-S [machine translation]Group on site: Claude-code稳定-S Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Kirocode enterprise account-mixed [machine translation]Original: Kirocode企业号-混合 Related variant: claude-sonnet-5-thinking (-thinking · thinking edition) Operator pending verification | 2.4 | 12 | 0.24 | 4.8 | Full prices and sources |
| — | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Relay low price | one key calls all models [machine translation]Group on site: 中转低价｜一key调用全模型 Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking ✨️All-model relay, low price, stable, fast [machine translation]Original: ✨️全模型中转，低价稳定、快速 Related variant: claude-sonnet-5-thinking (-thinking · thinking edition) Operator pending verification | 4 | 20 | 0.4 | 8 | Full prices and sources |
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 4220 recorded prices; 1904 can be compared directly (1723 ranked, 181 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 926, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 840, billed per request or another unit 139, display unit not confirmed 122, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 48, ratio looks unset 47, new price under review; showing the previous one 2
4 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. No recent prices to summarize in this group. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
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FAQ
Which API is cheapest for Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5?
No valid quotes within 10 days. Older quotes are listed as reference prices.
What is the official price for Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5?
Input 2, output 10 USD per million tokens, checked 2026-10-17. Lowest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 2, output 10 USD per million tokens. Input 0% higher than official.
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