Guide
Claude pricing, explained with examples
Claude Sonnet 5.5's list price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with a 1,000,000-token context window. Indicative prices, checked 2026-11-04.
One call: 10,000 tokens in, 2,000 out
| Model | Input cost | Output cost | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $0.0200 | $0.0200 | $0.0400 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.0010 | $0.0010 | $0.0020 |
A month at volume: 10M tokens in, 2M out
| Model | Input cost | Output cost | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $20.0000 | $20.0000 | $40.0000 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $1.0000 | $1.0000 | $2.0000 |
Sonnet is the writing-quality pick of the Claude family; Haiku is the workhorse at a twentieth of the price. Output tokens dominate the bill on both — a reply twice as long costs roughly twice as much, whatever the input was.
Haiku 5.5's rate above is for prompts up to 100,000 tokens; prompts over that pay $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens.