Claude API Pricing 2026: Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6 Cost (February 2026)

Anthropic Claude API pricing 2026: Claude Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6 cost per million tokens. Includes Haiku, Flash alternatives and cost optimization tips.

Claude API Pricing 2026

TL;DR — Claude API Prices (Feb 2026)

  • Claude Opus 4.6: $5.00/$25.00 per 1M input/output tokens
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6: $3.00/$15.00 per 1M tokens
  • Claude Haiku: $0.25/$1.25 per 1M tokens

Anthropic's Claude models are known for excellent reasoning and long context handling.


Claude 4 Family (Current)

Model Context Input / 1M tokens Output / 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6 200K $5.00 $25.00
Claude Sonnet 4.6 200K $3.00 $15.00
Claude Haiku 4 200K $0.25 $1.25

Claude 3 Family (Previous)

Model Context Input / 1M tokens Output / 1M tokens
Claude 3.5 Sonnet 200K $3.00 $15.00
Claude 3.5 Haiku 200K $0.25 $1.25
Claude 3 Opus 200K $15.00 $75.00
Claude 3 Sonnet 200K $3.00 $15.00
Claude 3 Haiku 200K $0.25 $1.25

Cost Optimization Tips

  1. Use Haiku for simple tasks - 95% cheaper than Opus
  2. Prompt caching - 90% off for repeated context
  3. Claude is free on google gemini - but limited

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