Claude Sonnet 5 Pricing & Token Cost Calculator (1000K context)

What Claude Sonnet 5 costs in practice

Workload	Cost / call	Cost @ 1K req/day
Light · 1K in / 300 out	$0.0050	$152.19/mo
Standard · 10K in / 2K out	$0.0400	$1217.50/mo
Heavy · 100K in / 20K out	$0.4000	$12175.00/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 Sonnet 5.

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 Sonnet 5 FAQ

How much does Claude Sonnet 5 cost?

Claude Sonnet 5 charges $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input reads at $0.20/M.

What is the context window of Claude Sonnet 5?

Claude Sonnet 5 supports a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M) — roughly 750,000 English words or about 1,500 pages of text in a single request.

Does Claude Sonnet 5 support images, audio or reasoning?

Claude Sonnet 5 offers vision & image understanding. Current Sonnet tier. 1M context; cache reads at 0.1x base input.

How do I estimate my Claude Sonnet 5 bill?

A typical workload of 10K input and 2K output tokens costs about $0.0400 per call with Claude Sonnet 5. At 1,000 requests per day that is roughly $1217.50 per month. Use the free AITokenCalculator to run your exact numbers.