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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Pricing | Claude
September 29, 2025 - Explore Claude pricing plans and API costs. Choose from Free, Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise options to get started with Claude.
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Get expanded Claude access with up to 20x higher usage limits. Priority access to new features for your most demanding projects.
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Use our API to create new user experiences, products, and ways to work with the most advanced AI models on the market.
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Build powerful AI agents that reason through complex problems and execute tasks autonomously with reliable results.
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Claude Code is an agentic AI coding tool that understands your entire codebase. Edit files, run commands, debug issues, and ship faster—directly from your terminal, IDE, Slack or on the web.
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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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May 29, 2024Anthropic'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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February 5, 2025Anthropic API pricing
Continue is a geat extension! You are correct in your assumption, total input and output tokens is what it comes down to in the end. But if you are reaching 3 usd per message, then maybe you should consider creating a new chat more often. I usually try to divide a task in parts and have one chat per task. It can be tedious, because you will have to add all the relevant context again, but you will both get better responses and save money :) Do you currently have one big conversation in one chat? More on reddit.com
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November 17, 2024Claude-3 Pricing - Holy smokes!
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March 5, 2024How 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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Anthropic API Pricing 2025 | MetaCTO
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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Anthropic API Pricing 2025 | MetaCTO
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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Anthropic API Pricing 2025 | MetaCTO
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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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anthropic.com › news › claude-opus-4-5
Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
1 month ago - 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.
Finout
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Anthropic API Pricing: Complete Guide and Cost Optimization Strategies (2025)
September 1, 2025 - The API is always billed per token, not flat-rate. Anthropic enforces two sets of controls to prevent runaway costs:
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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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Understanding Anthropic API Pricing: Key Insights and Best Practices
November 20, 2025 - Pricing: Claude 2.0 / 2.1 was priced at approximately $8 per MTok input and $24 per MTok output. Anthropic offers separate subscription plans for individuals and teams that provide access to Claude through the web app and desktop environments.
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Anthropic API Pricing 2025 | MetaCTO
September 15, 2025 - The definitive 2025 guide to Anthropic API pricing. A complete cost breakdown for Claude 4.1 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet.
Anthropic
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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
August 12, 2025 - Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million tokens of context on the Anthropic API—a 5x increase that lets you process entire codebases with over 75,000 lines of code or dozens of research papers in a single request.
Anthropic
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Overview | Claude
Splurging persistence: Even among consumers who state that they're concerned about rising prices, over one-third still have plans to splurge, indicating selective value optimization rather than across-the-board reduction.
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Claude AI Pricing: How Much Does Anthropic's AI Cost?
December 19, 2024 - These are all available to paid plans and API access, but they’re used for different things: Claude 3.5 Sonnet: This is the latest model, offering a balance of performance and cost. It’s suitable for most general-purpose applications and is the default model for web users. Claude 3 Opus: This model excels at complex tasks like in-depth analysis or advanced code generation, though at a higher price point.
Claude
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Claude Developer Platform | Claude
Use our API to create new user experiences, products, and ways to work with the most advanced AI models on the market.
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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.
Claude Docs
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Pricing - Claude Docs
This page provides detailed pricing information for Anthropic's models and features. All prices are in USD.
Obot
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Anthropic Claude API: A Practical Guide | Obot AI
October 7, 2024 - Dive into the Claude API - learn to integrate Anthropic’s Claude models into your apps: discover how Claude and Obot can help you build agents, handle prompts, and scale real-world workflows.
Solvimon
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Pricing Comparison: OpenAI versus Anthropic
Anthropic, on the other hand, adopts a more streamlined pricing strategy with fewer tiers and less publicly detailed API pricing. This simplicity can be advantageous for users seeking straightforward options without the need to navigate complex pricing structures.
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Pricing
Explore Claude pricing plans and API costs. Choose from Free, Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise options to get started with Claude.
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Claude Developer Platform
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Claude Pro vs. API: Which is more cost-effective for daily ...
May 29, 2024 - Maybe 5$ maximum per month on the API side of things. ... And now that we also have caching support in the Anthropic API, it will probably be even less moving forward. Basically the Claude Project is a cache of files which is now supported also ...