7 models across 3 tiers

Claude API pricing in 2026

Anthropic has 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 score well on code generation and reasoning benchmarks. All Claude models have a 90% cache read discount and a 1.25x cache write surcharge.

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 Opus 5	Flagship	$5.00	$25.00	1,000K	Not benchmarked	Jul 2026
Claude Fable 5.1	Flagship	$10.00	$50.00	1,000K	Not benchmarked	Aug 2026
Claude Fable 5	Flagship	$10.00	$50.00	1,000K	Reasoning (98/100)	Jun 2026

Claude Sonnet 5: Launched at $2/$10 as introductory pricing through Aug 31, 2026. Anthropic cancelled the scheduled increase to $3/$15, so this is now the standard price.

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	5.1	5
Code Generation	$0.0220	$0.0440	$0.0660	$0.1100	$0.1100	$0.2200	$0.2200
Unit Test Generation	$0.0280	$0.0560	$0.0840	$0.1400	$0.1400	$0.2800	$0.2800
SQL Generation	$0.006500	$0.0130	$0.0195	$0.0325	$0.0325	$0.0650	$0.0650
API Generation	$0.0330	$0.0660	$0.0990	$0.1650	$0.1650	$0.3300	$0.3300
Code Refactoring	$0.0240	$0.0480	$0.0720	$0.1200	$0.1200	$0.2400	$0.2400
Code Review	$0.0150	$0.0300	$0.0450	$0.0750	$0.0750	$0.1500	$0.1500
PR Review	$0.0230	$0.0460	$0.0690	$0.1150	$0.1150	$0.2300	$0.2300
Security Review	$0.0185	$0.0370	$0.0555	$0.0925	$0.0925	$0.1850	$0.1850
Bug Detection	$0.0150	$0.0300	$0.0450	$0.0750	$0.0750	$0.1500	$0.1500
Document Summarization	$0.0150	$0.0300	$0.0450	$0.0750	$0.0750	$0.1500	$0.1500
PDF Summarization	$0.0225	$0.0450	$0.0675	$0.1125	$0.1125	$0.2250	$0.2250
Meeting Notes	$0.0180	$0.0360	$0.0540	$0.0900	$0.0900	$0.1800	$0.1800
Email Summarization	$0.005500	$0.0110	$0.0165	$0.0275	$0.0275	$0.0550	$0.0550
Chatbot	$0.007000	$0.0140	$0.0210	$0.0350	$0.0350	$0.0700	$0.0700
RAG Pipeline	$0.0135	$0.0270	$0.0405	$0.0675	$0.0675	$0.1350	$0.1350
Customer Support Bot	$0.008000	$0.0160	$0.0240	$0.0400	$0.0400	$0.0800	$0.0800
FAQ Bot	$0.005500	$0.0110	$0.0165	$0.0275	$0.0275	$0.0550	$0.0550
Data Extraction	$0.009000	$0.0180	$0.0270	$0.0450	$0.0450	$0.0900	$0.0900
JSON Extraction	$0.007000	$0.0140	$0.0210	$0.0350	$0.0350	$0.0700	$0.0700
Invoice Parsing	$0.005000	$0.010000	$0.0150	$0.0250	$0.0250	$0.0500	$0.0500
Resume Parsing	$0.006500	$0.0130	$0.0195	$0.0325	$0.0325	$0.0650	$0.0650
Chain of Thought	$0.0280	$0.0560	$0.0840	$0.1400	$0.1400	$0.2800	$0.2800
Legal Analysis	$0.0300	$0.0600	$0.0900	$0.1500	$0.1500	$0.3000	$0.3000
Math Reasoning	$0.0165	$0.0330	$0.0495	$0.0825	$0.0825	$0.1650	$0.1650
Financial Analysis	$0.0280	$0.0560	$0.0840	$0.1400	$0.1400	$0.2800	$0.2800
Content Moderation	$0.001000	$0.002000	$0.003000	$0.005000	$0.005000	$0.0100	$0.0100
Sentiment Analysis	$0.001000	$0.002000	$0.003000	$0.005000	$0.005000	$0.0100	$0.0100
Categorization	$0.001550	$0.003100	$0.004650	$0.007750	$0.007750	$0.0155	$0.0155
Intent Detection	$0.000800	$0.001600	$0.002400	$0.004000	$0.004000	$0.008000	$0.008000
Copywriting	$0.0105	$0.0210	$0.0315	$0.0525	$0.0525	$0.1050	$0.1050
Blog Writing	$0.0410	$0.0820	$0.1230	$0.2050	$0.2050	$0.4100	$0.4100
Marketing Copy	$0.0158	$0.0316	$0.0474	$0.0790	$0.0790	$0.1580	$0.1580
Product Descriptions	$0.008000	$0.0160	$0.0240	$0.0400	$0.0400	$0.0800	$0.0800

Claude quality benchmarks by task

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

Confidence scores are a third-party benchmark snapshot from week 29 of 2026. This snapshot is 8 weeks old, so treat the scores as directional and validate against your own evals.

Task	4.5	5	4.6	4.8	5	5.1	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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