Claude Sonnet 4 API Pricing 2026: $3/M Tokens
Complete per-million-token pricing for Claude Sonnet 4 from Anthropic, including cached and batch rates, cost-per-1K/1M/10M breakdowns, a monthly cost calculator, and a head-to-head comparison with GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, DeepSeek-V3. For full cross-provider rankings, open the main calculator.
Claude Sonnet 4 headline pricing
Input
$3.00 /M tokens
Output
$15.00 /M tokens
Cached input
$0.30 /M (90% off)
Batch (50% off)
$1.50 in / $7.50 out /M
Context · capabilities
200K context · Chat, Code, Vision, Reasoning · benchmark 9/10
Claude Sonnet 4 cost per 1K, 1M and 10M tokens
Standard on-demand USD rates. Input assumes prompt tokens; output assumes generated tokens.
| Volume | Input cost | Output cost | Total (1:1) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1K tokens | $0.003 | $0.015 | $0.018 |
| 1M tokens | $3.00 | $15.00 | $18.00 |
| 10M tokens | $30.00 | $150.00 | $180.00 |
Claude Sonnet 4 monthly cost calculator
$10.50
per month for 1M in + 500K out
$126.00
per year
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Claude Sonnet 4 vs GPT-4o vs Gemini 2.5 Pro vs DeepSeek-V3
Claude Sonnet 4 ranks #4 of 4 by blended per-million-token price in this comparison. Lower input + output is cheaper.
| Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | In+Out | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-V3DeepSeek | $0.27 | $1.10 | $1.37 | 128K |
| Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | $1.25 | $10.00 | $11.25 | 1M |
| GPT-4oOpenAI | $2.50 | $10.00 | $12.50 | 128K |
| YOUClaude Sonnet 4Anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 | $18.00 | 200K |
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Claude Sonnet 4 pricing FAQ
How much does Claude Sonnet 4 cost?
Claude Sonnet 4 is priced at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens on Anthropic. At a typical 2:1 input-to-output ratio, that works out to roughly $7.00 per million blended tokens. Context window is 200K.
Is Claude Sonnet 4 cheaper than GPT-4o?
No — GPT-4o is cheaper. Its blended input+output rate ($12.50/M) undercuts Claude Sonnet 4 ($18.00/M) by about 31%. Claude Sonnet 4 may still win on quality, reasoning depth, or ecosystem fit for workloads where that matters more than raw price.
Does Claude Sonnet 4 support prompt caching?
Yes. Anthropic serves repeated input prefixes on Claude Sonnet 4 at $0.30/M — a 90% discount versus the standard $3.00/M input rate. Caching is automatic for qualifying prefixes and is most valuable for long system prompts and recurring context.
Can I use Claude Sonnet 4 with the Batch API?
Yes. Claude Sonnet 4 supports the Anthropic Batch API at $1.50/M input and $7.50/M output — 50% off standard rates — in exchange for asynchronous (up to 24-hour) completion. Batch is ideal for offline evaluation, classification, and bulk generation.