5 models across 3 tiers

Claude API pricing in 2026

Anthropic offers the Claude model family spanning three tiers: flagship (Opus 4-8, Fable 5), mid-tier (Sonnet 4-6, Sonnet 5), and fast (Haiku 4-5). Claude models are known for strong code generation and reasoning performance. Anthropic provides a 90% cache read discount and 1.25x cache write surcharge across all models.

Models

Cheapest input

$1.00/MTok

Cache discount

90% off

Max context

1,000K

All Claude models

Model	Tier	Input $/MTok	Output $/MTok	Context	Best task	Released
Claude Haiku 4.5	Fast / Budget	$1.00	$5.00	200K	Classification (90/100)	Oct 2025
Claude Sonnet 5	Mid-tier	$2.00	$10.00	200K	Code Review (96/100)	Jun 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.6	Mid-tier	$3.00	$15.00	200K	Code Review (95/100)	May 2026
Claude Opus 4.8	Flagship	$5.00	$25.00	200K	Reasoning (97/100)	Apr 2026
Claude Fable 5	Flagship	$10.00	$50.00	1,000K	Reasoning (98/100)	Jun 2026

Claude Sonnet 5: Introductory pricing $2/$10 through Aug 31, 2026 (registry reflects the intro rate; standard $3/$15 resumes Sep 1 — tracked revert: KNOWN_ISSUES #34)

Claude cost by use case

Estimated cost per API call across common workloads, using default token counts for each use case.

Use case	4.5	5	4.6	4.8	5
Code Generation	$0.0220	$0.0440	$0.0660	$0.1100	$0.2200
Unit Test Generation	$0.0280	$0.0560	$0.0840	$0.1400	$0.2800
SQL Generation	$0.006500	$0.0130	$0.0195	$0.0325	$0.0650
API Generation	$0.0330	$0.0660	$0.0990	$0.1650	$0.3300
Code Refactoring	$0.0240	$0.0480	$0.0720	$0.1200	$0.2400
Code Review	$0.0150	$0.0300	$0.0450	$0.0750	$0.1500
PR Review	$0.0230	$0.0460	$0.0690	$0.1150	$0.2300
Security Review	$0.0185	$0.0370	$0.0555	$0.0925	$0.1850
Bug Detection	$0.0150	$0.0300	$0.0450	$0.0750	$0.1500
Document Summarization	$0.0150	$0.0300	$0.0450	$0.0750	$0.1500
PDF Summarization	$0.0225	$0.0450	$0.0675	$0.1125	$0.2250
Meeting Notes	$0.0180	$0.0360	$0.0540	$0.0900	$0.1800

Claude quality benchmarks by task

Confidence scores (0-100) across all task types. Higher is better.

Task	4.5	5	4.6	4.8	5
Code Generation	72/100	93/100	92/100	95/100	96/100
Code Review	70/100	96/100	95/100	94/100	95/100
Summarization	82/100	91/100	90/100	88/100	90/100
Q&A	86/100	89/100	88/100	85/100	88/100
Extraction	88/100	88/100	86/100	82/100	85/100
Reasoning	65/100	90/100	88/100	97/100	98/100
Classification	90/100	86/100	84/100	80/100	82/100
Creative Writing	60/100	87/100	85/100	93/100	95/100

Recent Claude pricing changes

Claude Sonnet 5 input decreased

$3.00 to $2.00/MTok

Jul 21, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5 output decreased

$15.00 to $10.00/MTok

Jul 21, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5 input launched

$3.00/MTok at launch

Jun 30, 2026

Claude Fable 5 input launched

$10.00/MTok at launch

Jun 9, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8 input increased

$4.50 to $5.00/MTok

May 28, 2026

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