Price from Anthropic: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
Input
$2.00/M
Output
$10.00/M
Cached input
$0.200/M
Cache write
$2.50/M
Cache write 1h
$4.00/M
Reasoning
Unknown/M
Web search
$0.01/call
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
8 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
Seller
Input
Output
Precision
Uptime (1d)
Seller
Googlegoogle-vertex/global Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
Input$2.00
Output$10.00
Precisionundeclared
Uptime (1d)99.99%
Seller
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
Input$2.00
Output$10.00
Precisionundeclared
Uptime (1d)99.99%
Seller
Azureazure/global Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
99.84%
Input$2.00
Output$10.00
Precisionundeclared
Uptime (1d)99.99%
Seller
Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
Input$2.00
Output$10.00
Precisionundeclared
Uptime (1d)99.99%
Seller
Anthropicanthropic Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.200
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
Input$2.00
Output$10.00
Precisionundeclared
Uptime (1d)99.97%
Seller
Googlegoogle-vertex/us Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.220
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
Input$2.20
Output$11.00
Precisionundeclared
Uptime (1d)99.99%
Seller
Azureazure/us Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.220
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
Unknown
Input$2.20
Output$11.00
Precisionundeclared
Uptime (1d)100.00%
Seller
Googlegoogle-vertex/europe Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.220
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
128,000 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
Input$2.20
Output$11.00
Precisionundeclared
Uptime (1d)100.00%
Independent scores
LMArena Elo
1466.6xhigh
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
UI components#11405
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, succeeding Claude Sonnet 5 as a direct upgrade. It is especially strong at building features, fixing bugs, and producing...
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What does Claude Sonnet 5.5 cost?
$2.00/M in, $10.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Claude Sonnet 5.5 have an independent quality score?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Claude Sonnet 5.5?
Muse Spark 1.3 has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Claude Sonnet 5.5?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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