AnthropicClaude Sonnet 5.5 API pricing
- Generally available source
Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens on Anthropic's API, since .
Current price
Launch price
Claude Sonnet 5.5 launched at this price on .
Price history
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Price change ·
Rates from October 7, 2026 Rate Per 1M tokens Standard Input $2.00 Cached input $0.10 Cache write (5 min) $2.50 Cache write (1 hour) $4.00 Output $10.00 Batch Input $1.00 Output $5.00 Listed under 2026-10-07 in the release notes and announced in the Haiku 5.5 launch post. The 2026-10-07 21:15 UTC capture still showed $0.20 in the table and the 2026-10-08 04:32 UTC capture shows $0.10.
- Price: Changelog (platform.claude.com)
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We’ve lowered the price of prompt cache reads on Claude Sonnet 5.5 from $0.20 USD to $0.10 USD per million tokens: 0.05x the base input price instead of 0.1x. Cache writes and all other prices are unchanged.
- Price: Archived page (platform.claude.com, captured October 8, 2026)
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Claude Sonnet 5.5The best combination of speed and intelligence | $2 / MTok | $10 / MTok | $2.50 / MTok | $4 / MTok | $0.10 / MTok
- Date: Changelog (platform.claude.com)
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We’ve lowered the price of prompt cache reads on Claude Sonnet 5.5 from $0.20 USD to $0.10 USD per million tokens
- Date: Announcement (anthropic.com)
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We’re halving the price of Claude Sonnet 5.5’s cache reads
- Price: Changelog (platform.claude.com)
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Launch price ·
Rates from September 28, 2026 Rate Per 1M tokens Standard Input $2.00 Cached input $0.20 Cache write (5 min) $2.50 Cache write (1 hour) $4.00 Output $10.00 Batch Input $1.00 Output $5.00 Columns in the redesigned docs table: Input | Output | 5m writes | 1h writes | Hits and refreshes.
- Price: Archived page (anthropic.com, captured September 28, 2026)
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Sonnet 5.5 is priced the same as Sonnet 5 at $2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, and $0.20 per million tokens for cache reads
- Price: Archived page (platform.claude.com, captured September 28, 2026)
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Claude Sonnet 5.5The best combination of speed and intelligence | $2 / MTok | $10 / MTok | $2.50 / MTok | $4 / MTok | $0.20 / MTok
- Price: Archived page (platform.claude.com, captured September 28, 2026)
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Claude Sonnet 5.5The best combination of speed and intelligence | $1 / MTok | $5 / MTok
- Date: Announcement (anthropic.com)
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available on all platforms
- Date: Changelog (platform.claude.com)
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We’ve launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude-sonnet-5-5).
- Price: Archived page (anthropic.com, captured September 28, 2026)
Gaps in this history
None for standard pricing.
API ids
claude-sonnet-5-5