As long as Anthropic offers better solutions for programming than the rest, they can charge whatever they want. I'll never understand the people who claim that they are leaving Claude for other services. They just can't be building anything complicated. I've tried everything out there multiple times, and nothing comes close to claude Answer from WeeklySoup4065 on reddit.com
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This page provides detailed pricing information for Anthropic's models and features. All prices are in USD.
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Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
November 24, 2025 - Opus models have always been “the real SOTA” but have been cost prohibitive in the past. Claude Opus 4.5 is now at a price point where it can be your go-to model for most tasks.
Anthropic's API Pricing... Can They Stay Competitive?
As long as Anthropic offers better solutions for programming than the rest, they can charge whatever they want. I'll never understand the people who claim that they are leaving Claude for other services. They just can't be building anything complicated. I've tried everything out there multiple times, and nothing comes close to claude More on reddit.com
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How much are you spending on coding with Claude?
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How much does the Anthropic Claude 4.1 API cost in 2025?
The cost depends on the model. Claude 4.1 Sonnet costs $5 (input), $25 (output), and $10 (thinking) per million tokens. The flagship Claude 4.1 Opus is significantly more expensive at $20 (input), $80 (output), and $40 (thinking) per million tokens.
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What are Anthropic "thinking tokens"?
Thinking tokens are a new cost for Claude 4.1 models, charged when the model uses external tools or functions you provide. You are billed for the data sent to and received from these tools, which is separate from the standard input/output token costs for generating the final text response.
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How does Anthropic pricing compare to OpenAI/GPT-5?
They are priced very differently, creating a strategic choice. As of September 2025, OpenAI's flagship GPT-5 costs a flat $30 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens, but it does not have a separate charge for tool use. Claude 4.1 Sonnet is much cheaper for simple text I/O, but can become more expensive for tool-heavy tasks. GPT-5 is simpler to budget for, while Claude 4.1 can be more cost-effective if your tool usage is efficient.
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r/ClaudeAI on Reddit: Anthropic's API Pricing... Can They Stay Competitive?
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Question in the title... With Gemini already at a 90% cheaper than Anthropic, and now Deepseek following suit. How will users be able to justify the Claude API price?
I built out all my AI features of my software to use Anthropic, but now given the context size I'm producing and what I expect users to produce in terms of context size, it becomes harder and harder for me to justify the Anthropic price.
Have they released any news recently on breakthrough? potentially making Sonnet more affordable?
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As long as Anthropic offers better solutions for programming than the rest, they can charge whatever they want. I'll never understand the people who claim that they are leaving Claude for other services. They just can't be building anything complicated. I've tried everything out there multiple times, and nothing comes close to claude
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For now, I'm still paying the Anthropic bill, even though there are some models that perform better on paper. The main issue is that most (all?) of the models that perform better are reasoning models. I haven't seen anything perform better than sonnet for agent use cases (my experience is in developing RA.Aid, which is an autonomous software developer agent.) And, of course, agents end up using the most tokens of all, so I end up sending quite a bit Anthropic's way.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
September 29, 2025 - Pricing for Sonnet 4.5 starts at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with up to 90% cost savings with prompt caching and 50% cost savings with batch processing. To learn more, check out our pricing page. To get started, simply use claude-sonnet-4-5 via the Claude API.
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Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5
October 15, 2025 - Developers can use Claude Haiku 4.5 on our API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, where it serves as a drop-in replacement for both Haiku 3.5 and Sonnet 4 at our most economical price point.
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May 28, 2024 - I ran out of chat tokens twice today (Eeek) but have $29+ worth of API credits (which I normally just use with Cursor). ... When you use claude code inside your codebase, it will have access to all your files and all the context required.
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Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
September 29, 2025 - We recommend upgrading to Claude Sonnet 4.5 for all uses. Whether you’re using Claude through our apps, our API, or Claude Code, Sonnet 4.5 is a drop-in replacement that provides much improved performance for the same price. Claude Code updates are available to all users.
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Claude's Max Plan: Expanded Access for Demanding ...
April 9, 2025 - Claude's new Max plan offers up to 20x higher usage limits and priority access to new features. Update: Four major upgrades to the max plan. (May 1, 2025) Today we're introducing the Max plan—designed for those who collaborate with Claude extensively and need expanded access for their most...