Claude pricing
How Claude charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.
How it charges
Checked 2026-10-08 on claude.com ↗ · USD, list pricesIn short
Pay per token with no monthly fee, from $0.10 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens on Haiku 5.5 to $10 / $50 on Fable 5.1.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Side project
- $1.00/mo Claude Haiku 5.5
- Growing
- $10/mo Claude Haiku 5.5
- Scaling
- $200/mo Claude Haiku 5.5
What the model leaves out
Base input/output prices; prompt-cache reads are billed much lower and cache writes higher. US-only inference is 1.1x, and fast mode for Opus 5.5 is 2x. Batch processing is discounted.
Before you commit
- Haiku 5.5's prices are for requests up to 100K input tokens; longer requests cost $0.50 / $2.50 per million.
- Prompt-cache writes cost 1.25× the input price (5-minute TTL); cache reads are billed far lower.
- US-only inference costs 1.1× on input and output tokens, and fast mode for Opus 5.5 costs 2×.
- Web search is $10 per 1,000 searches on top of the tokens it uses; code execution is $0.05 per container-hour after 50 free hours a day.
| Plan | Monthly fee | Input tokens per month | Output tokens per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5.1 | None | $10 per million tokens | $50 per million tokens |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | None | $4 per million tokens | $20 per million tokens |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | None | $2 per million tokens | $10 per million tokens |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | None | $0.1 per million tokens | $0.5 per million tokens |
Price history 1 change since we started tracking
- 2026-10-08 plan dropped: Claude Haiku 4.5 · new plan: Claude Haiku 5.5 source ↗
What you'd pay
Claude Haiku 5.550 million tokens × $0.1 per million tokens + 10 million tokens × $0.5 per million tokens$10/mo
Cost as you grow
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