Wondering how much Claude 4 Sonnet w/ "API Pricing" costs? Here's your answer.
Claude-3 Pricing - Holy smokes!
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I was about to dust off some code to re-evaluate claude-3 (claude-2 didn't do a good job for our needs) and then saw the pricing - Opus is $75/1m, Sonnet is $15/1m, and Haiku is $1.25/1m tokens for output!
Having said that, I'm mildly curious what $75/1m tokens gets me in terms of quality :)
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I ran a flow action on Claude 4 Sonnet (Thinking). It cost 🥁
A bit over 17 flow action credits. Oof!
Quantity of output was similar to Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking) - which is 1.25 credits per flow action. Quality was better, not remarkably better but noticable if you paid close attention.
Worth it? No. Two calls to Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking) would have resulted in the same output if not more. That's only 2.5 credits. And it would have taken the same amount of time, Claude 4 Sonnet (Thinking) is really slow right now.
Hope this helps!
My question for you: if you've tried Claude 4 Sonnet (Thinking) or any others BYOK, how's that cost you? Please let me know.