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The API pricing gap among Anthropic's Claude series—Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus—can exceed 10x, and as of 2024 the output token unit price of Opus is approximately 20 times that of Haiku.
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Confidence
Medium-term (~90 days)
Relevance
7/5/2026
First Seen
Valid until: 10/3/2026(expired)
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UnverifiedAs of 2024, the output token price of Claude Opus is approximately 20 times that of Claude Haiku, and the API pricing gap among Claude's three tiers—Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus—can exceed 10-fold.82% similarUnverifiedOpus's input price is 5 times that of Sonnet and 60 times that of Haiku.63% similarUnverifiedThe API call cost per million tokens for Anthropic's top-tier Claude series models may be several times to more than ten times that of lightweight models.60% similarUnverifiedTaking a workflow with 4 agents and an average of 20 interactions per agent as an example, using Sonnet 4 might cost tens of dollars, while switching to Haiku 4.5 could reduce the cost to single-digit dollars60% similar
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