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Claude Sonnet 5.5

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source: openrouter.ai
Input$2.00per 1M tokens
Output$10.00per 1M tokens
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
What that buys
1M words of output
$13.33
100k-token chat, 80k in and 20k out
$0.3600

at 0.75 words per token

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Unit
per_1m_tokens
Source
openrouter
Checked
2026-10-10
Changes recorded
0

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Reseller price, read 2026-10-10

kie.ai, a reseller, lists Claude Sonnet 5.5 at $0.800 input and $4.00 output per 1M tokens on its pricing API, read 2026-10-10. That is 60% under the $2.00 input and 60% under the $10.00 output price above. kie.ai price record.

kie.ai is not Anthropic. Its documentation, read 2026-09-24, keeps text logs for 2 months and allows 20 new requests per 10 seconds; we have not sent a Anthropic request through it. kie.ai vs list prices, all 31 models.

Affiliate link. If you sign up through it we may earn a commission. It changed nothing in the prices on this page. kie.ai pricing

Price neighbours

Same modality, same unit
Nearest text models by priceUSD / 1M tokens · checked 2026-10-10
ModelProviderOutputSource
claude-sonnet-5Replicate Replicate $10.00 source
Claude-Opus-4-8kie.ai kie.ai $10.00 source
claude-opus-5kie.ai kie.ai $10.00 source
Checked 2026-10-10

According to APITariff, Claude Sonnet 5.5 from Anthropic costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens as of 2026-10-10.