Claude Sonnet 5 pricing & price history
Claude Sonnet 5 by Anthropic costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $2.00 input / $10.00 output.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check every 10 minutes.
Which platform runs Claude Sonnet 5 most reliably
5 platformsBy 30-day real-traffic success rate, Claude Platform on AWS is the most stable and also the cheapest.
| Platform | Last 30 days | Stability | 24 h | 30 min | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Platform on AWS most stable | Consistently stableavg 99.99% | 100% | 100% | ||
| Anthropic official | Consistently stableavg 99.97% | 100% | 100% | ||
| Occasional issues (1 d)avg 99.96% | 100% | 100% | |||
| Amazon Bedrock | Occasional issues (1 d)avg 99.94% | 100% | 100% | ||
| Azure | Occasional issues (1 d)avg 99.72% | 100% | — |
Success rates come from real API traffic routed to each platform (public OpenRouter data), not our probes; each daily bar is the average of that day's samples. Green ≥ 99.5 %, yellow ≥ 97 %, orange ≥ 90 %, red < 90 %. Updated 2d ago.
Cost calculator
Cheaper alternatives to Claude Sonnet 5
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Intel. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai (Zhipu) | $0.0399 | $0.0784 | 1M | 27.8 | compare |
 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek | $0.022 | $0.40 | 1M | — | compare |
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 DeepSeek | $0.098 | $0.29 | 1M | 28.6 | compare |
 Llama 4 Scout Meta Llama | $0.10 | $0.30 | 1.3M | — | compare |
 MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1.1M | 26.7 | compare |
Llama Guard 4 12B Meta Llama | $0.18 | $0.18 | 164K | — | compare |
Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1M | 36.5 | compare |
 GPT-6 Luna Pro OpenAI | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1.1M | — | compare |
Using a relay or third-party API?
Check for free whether it really serves Claude Sonnet 5: output fingerprint, tokenizer and billing evidence, results in 1–3 minutes.
About Claude Sonnet 5
Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max,...
FAQ
How much does Claude Sonnet 5 cost?
Claude Sonnet 5 by Anthropic costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $2.00 input / $10.00 output. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.009.
What is the context window of Claude Sonnet 5?
Claude Sonnet 5 supports up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and up to 128,000 output tokens per request.
Has Claude Sonnet 5’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Claude Sonnet 5 being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Claude Sonnet 5 as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Claude Sonnet 5?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.022/$0.40), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29), Llama 4 Scout ($0.10/$0.30).