★ Used for the estimate above
Claude Sonnet 5.5
$79.84/month
✓ Official price checked Oct 6, 2026 · Official pricing
Good for everyday chat and coding. Not good for high-volume jobs on a tight budget.
MidAnthropic
Claude API Pricing (Oct 2026)
Claude (Anthropic) costs $79.84 per month ✓ Official price checked Oct 6, 2026 · official pricing page. That is a chatbot workload on Claude Sonnet 5.5 (800 input tokens, 300 output tokens, 20,000 requests, 40% of input cached).
Cached input on Claude Sonnet 5.5 is $0.10 per 1M tokens instead of $2. Batch API requests are 50% off the standard rates on every model in this table.
What are you using it for?
800 input · 300 output · 20,000 requests/month · 40% of input cached
Claude Haiku 4.5
$40.24/month
✓ Official price checked Oct 6, 2026 · Official pricing
Good for batch and high-volume requests. Not good for flagship-tier work.
SmallAnthropic
Claude Opus 5.5
$160/month
✓ Official price checked Oct 6, 2026 · Official pricing
Good for harder coding and long tasks. Not good for high-volume budget traffic.
FlagshipAnthropic
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Claude price table
4 models · USD per 1M tokens
| Model | Provider | Tier | Checked | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic · $4 in / $20 out | $0.0092 | Anthropic | Flagship | $4 | $20 | $0.20 | 1M | Oct 6, 2026 | $0.0092 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic · $10 in / $50 out | $0.023 | Anthropic | Flagship | $10 | $50 | $0.25 | 1M | Oct 6, 2026 | $0.023 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic · $2 in / $10 out | $0.0046 | Anthropic | Mid | $2 | $10 | $0.10 | 1M | Oct 6, 2026 | $0.0046 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic · $1 in / $5 out | $0.0023 | Anthropic | Small | $1 | $5 | $0.10 | 200K | Oct 6, 2026 | $0.0023 |
Standard pay-as-you-go rates. * Higher rates apply above a context-length threshold. Click a date to open the official pricing page it was checked against. Your cost is one request at the usage selected above.
Cheaper alternatives
Other models that cost less than Claude Sonnet 5.5 for the default chatbot workload (800 input tokens, 300 output tokens, 20,000 requests). The Claude estimate above can change when you pick another scenario; this list stays on that default.
| Alternative | Monthly cost | Savings | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.7-Flash Alibaba (Qwen) | $1.11 | 99% | — |
| Ministral 3 3B Mistral | $1.62 | 98% | — |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral | $2.44 | 97% | — |
| Ministral 3 14B Mistral | $3.25 | 96% | — |
FAQ
Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $79.84 per month for a chatbot workload of 800 input tokens, 300 output tokens, and 20,000 requests, with 40% of input tokens cached. That uses the rates checked on Oct 6, 2026. Across Claude models in this table, the same workload runs from $40.24 to $398 per month.
Claude input prices in this table run from $1 to $10 per 1M tokens, and output prices run from $5 to $50. Checked Oct 6, 2026 against Anthropic's official pricing page.
The input and output columns are standard rates. Cached input on Claude Sonnet 5.5 is $0.10 per 1M tokens instead of $2. Batch API requests are 50% off the standard rates on every model in this table.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is the lowest Claude monthly cost for the default chatbot workload, at $40.24 per month ($1 input and $5 output per 1M tokens).
The Claude rows were checked on Oct 6, 2026. Each row links to the official pricing page the rate was copied from.