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Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent (@claudeai)
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Sonnet 5's launch pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, set to end August 31, now stays permanently.
In plain words
- Anthropic made Claude Sonnet 5's launch prices permanent instead of ending them on August 31.
- The price is $2 per million input tokens, pieces of text sent to the artificial intelligence system.
- The price is $10 per million output tokens, pieces of text the system produces in response.
- People and companies using Sonnet 5 can now plan around unchanged prices beyond August 31.
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Aug 11, 2026 · from X
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