Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude API serving the Claude Fable, Opus, Sonnet and Haiku model families.
Claude 4.6 and later have no long-context price surcharge. Output tokens cost five times the input rate on the models listed here, so output length matters. Batch calls halve the rates, and cache reads cost less than fresh input. The first-party API has no EU-only processing option; US-only processing adds 10%.
- Headquarters
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- Small amount of free credits for new API accounts.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.anthropic.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Model | Input / 1M tokens | Output / 1M tokens | Cached / 1M tokens | Context | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5.1 | $10 | $50 | $0.25 | 1000k | frontier |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4 | $20 | $0.2 | 1000k | frontier |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2 | $10 | $0.2 | 1000k | mid |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1 | $5 | $0.1 | 200k | small |
1M context billed at a flat rate (no long-context tier) on Claude 4.6 and later. First-party inference_geo supports only "global" or "us" (US-only costs 1.1x); no EU-only option on the Claude API itself (EU regions are available via Bedrock / Google Cloud at their own prices). Cache reads are 0.1x input, except 0.05x on Opus 5.5 and 0.025x on Fable 5.1. Batch API halves prices.
Managed alternatives
At 500M input tokens / month, 50M output tokens / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Anthropic 路 Claude Haiku 4.5: $9,000/yr estimated.
- Groq 路 gpt-oss-20b: $630/yr estimated 路 $8,370/yr bill differencePublished rates
- OpenAI 路 GPT-6 Luna: $900/yr estimated 路 $8,100/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Mistral AI 路 Ministral 3 8B: $990/yr estimated 路 $8,010/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Qwen) 路 Qwen3.8-Flash: $1,182/yr estimated 路 $7,818/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Fireworks AI 路 GLM 5.3 Flash: $1,200/yr estimated 路 $7,800/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you鈥檇 need to replace. We compare the selected model or the cheapest listed model in the chosen capability tier. Sharing a tier does not mean equal quality.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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