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Why use Claude Sonnet 5 on Anthropic?
Anthropic offers Claude Sonnet 5 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $2.00/1M input tokens. Anthropic is a safety-focused AI research company and creator of the Claude model family, offering API access through the Anthropic Console for text generation, analysis, and coding tasks.
Compare Claude Sonnet 5 across 5 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Python + curlpip install anthropicexport ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic() # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
model="claude-sonnet-5",claude-sonnet-5Request example
import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic() # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
model="claude-sonnet-5",
max_tokens=1024,
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(message.content[0].text)Gotchas
- Use the versioned model ID, e.g. "claude-sonnet-4-6" or "claude-opus-4-7-20251101".
- The examples expect ANTHROPIC_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare Claude Sonnet 5 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| AWS Bedrock | — | — |
| GCP Vertex AI | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| OpenRouter | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Microsoft Foundry | — | — |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $2.00 |
| Output tokens | $10.00 |
Capabilities
About Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's next-generation Sonnet model for agentic coding, tool use, computer use, and professional work. It is a proprietary decoder-only model with a 1M-token context window, 128K max output, multimodal vision, adaptive thinking, function calling, structured outputs, prompt caching, and Batch API support. It is available through the Claude API, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry preview, and OpenRouter. Anthropic lists durable standard pricing at $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens, with introductory $2/$10 pricing through 2026-08-31.