Claude Sonnet 5: API pricing, providers and specs
Claude Sonnet 5 is a text model by Anthropic. 32 providers serve it, from $6.90 to $15 /1M; the lowest price is at Kenari.
A newer version is out: Claude Sonnet 5.5 · released Sep 28, 2026
How Claude Sonnet 5 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Pricey for its class: at $6.90 /1M, its lowest price is above 82% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 1M-token context window is larger than 67% of them (median 262K), about 1500 pages of text.
- On LMArena's WebDev board it ranks #37 of the 64 comparable models scored there.
- 32 providers serve it; 98% of comparable models have fewer.
Claude Sonnet 5 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kenari | $1.38/1M | $6.90/1M | $0.552/1M | — |
| APIMart | $1.60/1M | $8/1M | — | — |
 CometAPI | $1.60/1M | $8/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
| AnthropicOfficial | $2/1M | From$10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
| ZenMux | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | 1M |
 CrossModel | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 Opper | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 Requesty | $2/1M | From$10/1M | $0.20/1M | 1M |
 Venice AI | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
| OpenCode | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 DigitalOcean | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 OrcaRouter | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | 1M |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $2/1M | From$10/1M | $0.20/1M | 1M |
 NEAR AI Cloud | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | 1M |
 Prime Inference | $2/1M | $10/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | 1M |
| AI/ML API | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 Impossibl | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
| OpenRouter | $2/1M | From$10/1M | $0.20/1M | 1M |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $2/1M | From$10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 Perplexity | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 APIYI | $2/1M | $10/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $2/1M | $10/1M | — | — |
 CrazyRouter | $2/1M | $10/1M | — | — |
| Atlas Cloud | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 Amazon Bedrock | $2/1M | From$10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 Vertex | $2/1M | From$10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
 FastRouter | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | 1M |
 Jiekou.AI | $2/1M | $10/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
| Replicate | $2/1M | $10/1M | — | — |
 Cortecs | $2.21/1M | $11.05/1M | $0.221/1M | — |
 Deep Infra | $3/1M | $15/1M | — | — |
- Kenari$6.90
- APIMart$8
- CometAPI$8
- ZenMux$10
- CrossModel$10
- Opper$10
- Venice AI$10
- OpenCode$10
- DigitalOcean$10
- OrcaRouter$10
- NEAR AI Cloud$10
- Prime Inference$10
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Anthropic
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1M≈ 1500 pages of text
- Max output
- 128K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Jun 29, 2026
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
- Arena score
- 1541WebDev
- Monthly searches
- 22K
Alternatives to Claude Sonnet 5
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5this model | $6.90/1M | 1M | 1541 | 32 |
 Gemini 4 Argon | $8/1M | 1.05M | 1673 | 26 |
| Kimi K3 | $8.28/1M | 1.05M | 1655 | 47 |
 Muse Wonder | $16/1M | 1.05M | — | 14 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | $8/1M | 1.05M | 1749 | 27 |
| GPT-6 Sol | $8/1M | 1.05M | 1682 | 28 |
 Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | $4.11/1M | 1M | — | 22 |
| Grok 4.7 | $4.80/1M | 500K | 1637 | 28 |
| Gemini 3 Flash | $2.40/1M | 1.05M | 1466 | 5 |
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Claude Sonnet 5 FAQ
Kenari, at $6.90 /1M. 32 providers serve Claude Sonnet 5; the table above lists every one with its price.
Claude Sonnet 5 reads up to 1M tokens per request and writes up to 128K.
No. Claude Sonnet 5 is only available through an API; Anthropic does not publish its weights.
32 API providers serve Claude Sonnet 5. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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