1 million Claude Sonnet 4.5 tokens cost $3.00 as input or $15.00 as output. Most workloads land in between — a 70/30 input/output split costs about $6.60. Verified Aug 16, 2026
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1,000,000 in · 0 out
Input price
$3.00 / 1M tokens
Output price
$15.00 / 1M tokens
Uncached pricing. Add caching and monthly projections in the full calculator.
What 1 million tokens buys in practice
$5.40
80% input / 20% output — short replies over conversation history.
$4.20
90% input / 10% output — long retrieved context, grounded answers.
$3.60
95% input / 5% output — full documents in, structured extraction out.
Same 1 million tokens on other models
70/30 input/output split, uncached.
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FAQ
1 million input tokens cost $3.00; 1 million output tokens cost $15.00. A typical 70/30 input/output mix costs about $6.60. Rates: $3.00/M input, $15.00/M output.
A chat-style request of ~4,800 tokens (4,000 in + 800 out) means 1 million tokens is roughly 208 requests. For a RAG workload with ~8,500 tokens per request, about 118 requests.
Yes — cached input costs $0.30/M instead of $3.00/M, a 90% discount on repeated context.