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2026-08-18 03:51 UTC · anthropic/api-pricing · live page

Claude Sonnet 5 introductory pricing of $2/$10 per million input/output tokens is now the permanent standard price.

Summary by gemma-4-12b. It may be wrong; the diff below is what actually changed. Raw: c7cf3bf431-anthropic-api-pricing.diff · commit c7cf3bf431

diff --git a/snapshots/anthropic/api-pricing.md b/snapshots/anthropic/api-pricing.mdindex e1c1824..8726d8d 100644--- a/snapshots/anthropic/api-pricing.md+++ b/snapshots/anthropic/api-pricing.md@@ -20,6 +20,5 @@ The following table shows pricing for all Claude models: | Claude Opus 4.1 (retired, except on Bedrock and Google Cloud) | $15 / MTok | $18.75 / MTok | $30 / MTok | $1.50 / MTok | $75 / MTok | | Claude Opus 4 (retired, except on Google Cloud) | $15 / MTok | $18.75 / MTok | $30 / MTok | $1.50 / MTok | $75 / MTok |-| Claude Sonnet 5 through August 31, 2026 | $2 / MTok | $2.50 / MTok | $4 / MTok | $0.20 / MTok | $10 / MTok |-| Claude Sonnet 5 starting September 1, 2026 | $3 / MTok | $3.75 / MTok | $6 / MTok | $0.30 / MTok | $15 / MTok |+| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2 / MTok | $2.50 / MTok | $4 / MTok | $0.20 / MTok | $10 / MTok | | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3 / MTok | $3.75 / MTok | $6 / MTok | $0.30 / MTok | $15 / MTok | | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3 / MTok | $3.75 / MTok | $6 / MTok | $0.30 / MTok | $15 / MTok |@@ -28,5 +27,5 @@ The following table shows pricing for all Claude models: | Claude Haiku 3.5 (retired, except on Bedrock and Google Cloud) | $0.80 / MTok | $1 / MTok | $1.60 / MTok | $0.08 / MTok | $4 / MTok | -Introductory pricing of $2/$10 per million input/output tokens is in effect through August 31, 2026, after which the standard pricing of $3/$15 per million input/output tokens will take effect.+The $2/$10 per million input/output token pricing for Claude Sonnet 5, announced at launch as introductory pricing through August 31, 2026, is now the standard price. The previously scheduled increase to $3/$15 per million input/output tokens on September 1, 2026 will not occur.  MTok = Million tokens. The "Base Input Tokens" column shows standard input pricing, the "5m Cache Writes", "1h Cache Writes", and "Cache Hits & Refreshes" columns are specific to prompt caching, and "Output Tokens" shows output pricing. See prompt caching pricing for an explanation of the cache columns and pricing multipliers.@@ -176,6 +175,5 @@ The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a | Claude Opus 4.1 (retired, except on Bedrock and Google Cloud) | $7.50 / MTok | $37.50 / MTok | | Claude Opus 4 (retired, except on Google Cloud) | $7.50 / MTok | $37.50 / MTok |-| Claude Sonnet 5 through August 31, 2026 | $1 / MTok | $5 / MTok |-| Claude Sonnet 5 starting September 1, 2026 | $1.50 / MTok | $7.50 / MTok |+| Claude Sonnet 5 | $1 / MTok | $5 / MTok | | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $1.50 / MTok | $7.50 / MTok | | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $1.50 / MTok | $7.50 / MTok |

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