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Claude Sonnet 5.5: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby AnthropicProprietary (API only)Released Sep 28, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a text model by Anthropic. 32 providers serve it, from $8 to $11.30 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.

Lowest price$8/1Mat APIMart
Maker's price$10/1M20% more than the lowest
Providers32
Context1MMax output 128K

How Claude Sonnet 5.5 compares

Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.

  • Pricey for its class: at $8 /1M, its lowest price is above 83% 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 #3 of the 64 comparable models scored there.
  • 32 providers serve it; 98% of comparable models have fewer.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 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.

ProviderInputOutputPrompt cachingContext
APIMart$1.60/1M$8/1M——
CometAPI$1.60/1M$8/1M$0.08/1M—
AnthropicOfficial$2/1MFrom$10/1M$0.10/1M1M
CrossModel$2/1M$10/1M$0.10/1M—
Requesty$2/1MFrom$10/1M$0.20/1M1M
Venice AI$2/1M$10/1M$0.10/1M—
OpenCode$2/1M$10/1M$0.20/1M—
DigitalOcean$2/1M$10/1M$0.20/1M—
Vercel AI Gateway$2/1MFrom$10/1M$0.10/1M1M
NEAR AI Cloud$2/1M$10/1M$0.10/1M1M
Prime Inference$2/1M$10/1M——
AIHubMix$2/1M$10/1M$0.10/1M1M
NanoGPT$2/1M$10/1M——
AI/ML API$2/1M$10/1M$0.20/1M—
OpenRouter$2/1MFrom$10/1M$0.10/1M1M
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$2/1MFrom$10/1M$0.10/1M—
Deep Infra$2/1M$10/1M——
Perplexity$2/1M$10/1M$0.10/1M—
APIYI$2/1M$10/1M——
LaoZhang API$2/1M$10/1M——
Atlas Cloud$2/1M$10/1M$0.20/1M—
ZenMux$2/1M$10/1M$0.10/1M1M
Amazon Bedrock$2/1MFrom$10/1M$0.10/1M—
Vertex$2/1MFrom$10/1M$0.10/1M—
OrcaRouter$2/1M$10/1M$0.20/1M1M
FastRouter$2/1M$10/1M$0.20/1M1M
Jiekou.AI$2/1M$10/1M$0.10/1M—
Impossibl$2/1M$10/1M$0.20/1M—
Opper$2/1M$10/1M$0.10/1M—
Poe$2.02/1M$10.10/1M$0.202/1M1M
Kenari$2.21/1M$11.04/1M$0.828/1M—
Cortecs$2.26/1M$11.30/1M$0.226/1M—
Output price by provider, /1M, cheapest first
  1. APIMart$8
  2. CometAPI$8
  3. CrossModel$10
  4. Venice AI$10
  5. OpenCode$10
  6. DigitalOcean$10
  7. NEAR AI Cloud$10
  8. Prime Inference$10
  9. AIHubMix$10
  10. NanoGPT$10
  11. AI/ML API$10
  12. Deep Infra$10
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 26, 2026.

Specs

Type
Text
Inputs
Image, Text
Outputs
Text
Context
1M≈ 1500 pages of text
Max output
128K
Capabilities
Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
Released
Sep 28, 2026
License
proprietary
Open weights
No, API only
Arena score
1767WebDev
Monthly searches
102K

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