Anthropic Claude Pricing
Safety-focused AI with exceptional reasoning, long-form generation, and analysis.
Cost optimization across the full model lineup
Every model below is available at up to 70% lower cost than official pricing. Pay-as-you-go, no credit card.
All Anthropic Claude Models
Claude Opus 4.8Claude Sonnet 4.6Claude Haiku 4.5Claude Opus 4.7Claude 4 OpusClaude Sonnet 4Anthropic Claude Pricing Guide
How Anthropic Claude pricing scales
Input pricing varies 80% across the lineup ($1.00 → $5.00/1M). At 1M requests/month with ~1K input tokens, the cheapest variant costs roughly $1.00 while the flagship runs $5.00 — a 80% gap that compounds fast at scale. Output-token pricing follows the same tiering, so long-form generation amplifies the difference.
Which variant to pick
Anthropic Claude combines multimodal input with tool use across 4 active variants. The lineup spans $1.00–$5.00/1M input, so you can scale vision + agent workloads without overpaying on the cheap end or sacrificing quality on the flagship.
Anthropic Claude notes
Anthropic Claude sits in the General Purpose category. Safety-focused AI with exceptional reasoning, long-form generation, and analysis. The 1M maximum context window (on Claude Opus 4.8) is the largest in this lineup — enough to ingest entire codebases or long documents in one call.
Cost in practice
Real-world fit: Anthropic Claude variants power document-understanding apps — OCR-free receipt parsing, screenshot-to-code, and visual Q&A. Cheaper vision variants handle high-volume extraction; the flagship tackles nuanced visual reasoning.