10,000 Claude Opus 5 tokens cost $0.05 as input or $0.25 as output. Most workloads land in between — a 70/30 input/output split costs about $0.11. Verified Aug 16, 2026
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10,000 in · 0 out
Input price
$5.00 / 1M tokens
Output price
$25.00 / 1M tokens
Uncached pricing. Add caching and monthly projections in the full calculator.
What 10,000 tokens buys in practice
$0.09
80% input / 20% output — short replies over conversation history.
$0.07
90% input / 10% output — long retrieved context, grounded answers.
$0.06
95% input / 5% output — full documents in, structured extraction out.
Same 10,000 tokens on other models
70/30 input/output split, uncached.
FAQ
10,000 input tokens cost $0.05; 10,000 output tokens cost $0.25. A typical 70/30 input/output mix costs about $0.11. Rates: $5.00/M input, $25.00/M output.
A chat-style request of ~4,800 tokens (4,000 in + 800 out) means 10,000 tokens is roughly 2.1 requests. For a RAG workload with ~8,500 tokens per request, about 1.2 requests.
Yes — cached input costs $0.50/M instead of $5.00/M, a 90% discount on repeated context.