Claude 3 Sonnet Pricing & Token Cost Calculator (200K context)

What Claude 3 Sonnet costs in practice

Workload	Cost / call	Cost @ 1K req/day
Light · 1K in / 300 out	$0.0075	$228.28/mo
Standard · 10K in / 2K out	$0.0600	$1826.25/mo
Heavy · 100K in / 20K out	$0.6000	$18262.50/mo

Estimates assume medium reasoning effort, no batch discounts and no prompt caching. Turn on prompt caching and the input side typically drops 50–90% — run your own mix in the free calculator preloaded with Claude 3 Sonnet.

About this page

Prices were last verified on August 20, 2026 against Anthropic's official pricing page. Providers reprice frequently — see our methodology for exactly how estimates are computed, and always confirm final rates with the provider before budgeting.

Claude 3 Sonnet FAQ

How much does Claude 3 Sonnet cost?

Claude 3 Sonnet charges $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with cached input reads at $0.30/M.

What is the context window of Claude 3 Sonnet?

Claude 3 Sonnet supports a context window of 200,000 tokens (200K) — roughly 150,000 English words or about 300 pages of text in a single request.

Does Claude 3 Sonnet support images, audio or reasoning?

Claude 3 Sonnet offers vision & image understanding. Superseded by Claude 3.5 Sonnet at same price.

How do I estimate my Claude 3 Sonnet bill?

A typical workload of 10K input and 2K output tokens costs about $0.0600 per call with Claude 3 Sonnet. At 1,000 requests per day that is roughly $1826.25 per month. Use the free AITokenCalculator to run your exact numbers.