API PRICES
claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking
Provider prices, cheapest first
claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest relay: niuniutoken.com, group "AWSB · compatible [machine translation] (on site: AWSB · 兼容)" 15 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 118 sites have comparable prices; 118 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 15 · median 16.8 · highest 16.8 · 5 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
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.
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 15 · median 16.8 · highest 16.8 (5 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
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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| 01 | niuniutoken.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans | AWSB · compatible [machine translation]Group on site: AWSB · 兼容 Name on site: claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking Niuniu compatible [machine translation]Original: 牛牛兼容 Operator pending verification | 7.5 | 37.5 | 0.75 | 15Median price ÷ this price: 1.1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | niuniutoken.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans | AWSB · standard [machine translation]Group on site: AWSB · 标准 Name on site: claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking Niuniu basic [machine translation]Original: 牛牛基础 Operator pending verification | 7.5 | 37.5 | 0.75 | 15Median price ÷ this price: 1.1× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | niuniutoken.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans | AWSB Name on site: claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking Niuniu general [machine translation]Original: 牛牛通用 Operator pending verification | 8.4 | 42 | 0.84 | 16.8Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | niuniutoken.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans | aws-b Name on site: claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking Niuniu daily [machine translation]Original: 牛牛日用 Operator pending verification | 8.4 | 42 | 0.84 | 16.8Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | niuniutoken.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans | awsb external use [machine translation]Group on site: awsb外接 Name on site: claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking Niuniu connect [machine translation]Original: 牛牛连接 Operator pending verification | 8.4 | 42 | 0.84 | 16.8Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
Special groups · 3 rows · not ranked
These plans are marked as test, internal, disabled, gated by top-up or membership, or have a near-zero ratio. They may not be purchasable or stable, so they are listed separately and left out of the ranking and statistics.
- test or debug group: 3 rows
- test-api.apiqik.online · claude-code · claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking · Input 0.6 / Output 3 USD credits / 1M
- test-api.apiqik.online · claudecode-max · claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking · Input 0.9 / Output 4.5 USD credits / 1M
- test-api.apiqik.online · claude · claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking · Input 1.5 / Output 7.5 USD credits / 1M
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 563 recorded prices; 284 can be compared directly (278 ranked, 6 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 153, ratio looks unset 29, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 24, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 20, billed per request or another unit 18, display unit not confirmed 14
5 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 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.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking?
niuniutoken.com, group "AWSB · 兼容 (AWSB · compatible)", 15 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 118 sites have comparable prices.
How do I use claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking in Claude Code or Codex?
Install Grandet Skill, then say "Connect the cheapest claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking API to Claude Code for me". Install Skill →