API PRICES
claude-sonnet-5-thinking
Provider prices, cheapest first
claude-sonnet-5-thinking official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest relay: api.aabao.top, group "default" 4 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 42 sites have comparable prices; 42 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 4 · median 11 · highest 32 · 8 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 4 · median 11 · highest 32 (8 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 | api.aabao.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude special price [machine translation]Group on site: Claude特价 Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Code only (1.0 rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: Code专用（1.0倍率） Operator pending verification | 2 | 10 | 0.2 | 4Median price ÷ this price: 2.8× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.aabao.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Default group (1.0x rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: 默认分组（1.0倍率） Operator pending verification | 2 | 10 | 0.2 | 4Median price ÷ this price: 2.8× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | api.aabao.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude only [machine translation]Group on site: Claude专用 Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Custom channel (2.0 rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: 定制渠道（2.0倍率） Operator pending verification | 4 | 20 | 0.4 | 8Median price ÷ this price: 1.4× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | api.aabao.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude official relay [machine translation]Group on site: Claude官转 Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Max channel (2.0 rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: Max渠道（2.0倍率） Operator pending verification | 4 | 20 | 0.4 | 8Median price ÷ this price: 1.4× | Full prices and sources |
| 05 | api.aabao.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude-1 Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Pure Vertex (3.5 rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: 纯Vertex（3.5倍率） Operator pending verification | 7 | 35 | 0.7 | 14Median price ÷ this price: 0.8× | Full prices and sources |
| 05 | api.aabao.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude-2 Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Pure AWS (3.5 rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: 纯AWS（3.5倍率） Operator pending verification | 7 | 35 | 0.7 | 14Median price ÷ this price: 0.8× | Full prices and sources |
| 07 | api.aabao.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude premium quality [machine translation]Group on site: Claude优质 Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Claude premium quality (6.0 rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: Claude优质（6.0倍率） Operator pending verification | 12 | 60 | 1.2 | 24Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 08 | api.aabao.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Claude direct connection [machine translation]Group on site: Claude直连 Name on site: claude-sonnet-5-thinking Claude direct connection (8.0 rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: Claude直连（8.0倍率） Operator pending verification | 16 | 80 | 1.6 | 32Median price ÷ this price: 0.3× | Full prices and sources |
Special groups · 4 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.
- top-up or membership gated: 4 rows
- api.99ai.uk · claude official stable special-price group - day pass only [machine translation]Group on site: claude官稳特惠组-日卡专用 · claude-sonnet-5-thinking · Input 2.34 / Output 11.7 USD credits / 1M
- clearapi.dev · claude official stable special-price group - day pass only [machine translation]Group on site: claude官稳特惠组-日卡专用 · claude-sonnet-5-thinking · Input 2.34 / Output 11.7 USD credits / 1M
- api.99ai.uk · claude official stable self-cache group - day pass only [machine translation]Group on site: claude官稳自缓组-日卡专用 · claude-sonnet-5-thinking · Input 9 / Output 45 USD credits / 1M
- clearapi.dev · claude official stable self-cache group - day pass only [machine translation]Group on site: claude官稳自缓组-日卡专用 · claude-sonnet-5-thinking · Input 9 / Output 45 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 317 recorded prices; 144 can be compared directly (137 ranked, 7 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 97, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 24, ratio looks unset 17, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 13, display unit not confirmed 4, billed per request or another unit 3
8 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.
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FAQ
Which API is cheapest for claude-sonnet-5-thinking?
api.aabao.top, group "default", 4 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 42 sites have comparable prices.
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