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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (sold by OpenRouter)

Prices and limits, each value carrying the date it was observed and the source it came from.

As of 15 September 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens on OpenRouter. Observed on OpenRouter's own published price list on 15 September 2026. This is OpenRouter's resale price, not the model vendor's list price.

Input $3.00 per 1M
Output $15.00 per 1M
Context 1 000 000 tokens

What does Claude Sonnet 4.5 cost?

ParameterValueUnit ObservedSourceProof
Input price $3.00 USD per 1M tokens 15 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 08c6e27b7535
Output price $15.00 USD per 1M tokens 15 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 08c6e27b7535
Context window 1 000 000 tokens 15 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 08c6e27b7535
Maximum output 64 000 tokens 15 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 08c6e27b7535
Agentic index (Artificial Analysis) 17.5 index 0-100 15 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L4 48cc0be56ade
Coding index (Artificial Analysis) 52.1 index 0-100 16 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L4 42ebb9d4b828
Intelligence index (Artificial Analysis) 21.2 index 0-100 15 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L4 48cc0be56ade
Input modalities
  • file
  • image
  • text
list 18 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 62c152853524
Output modalities
  • text
list 18 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 62c152853524
Cache read price $0.300 USD per 1M tokens 15 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 08c6e27b7535
Cache write price $3.75 USD per 1M tokens 15 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 08c6e27b7535
Listed since 2025-09-29 date 18 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 62c152853524
Supported parameters
  • include_reasoning
  • max_completion_tokens
  • max_tokens
  • reasoning
  • response_format
  • stop
  • structured_outputs
  • temperature
  • tool_choice
  • tools
  • top_k
  • top_p
list 18 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L1 62c152853524

Does the price change with the hour or the size of the request?

Yes. This provider publishes conditional rates, so the figure above is not the only price you can pay. Each rate below applies under a stated condition, taken verbatim from the provider's own catalogue.

ParameterRate AppliesObserved
Input price $6.00 prompts over 200 000 tokens 16 September 2026
Output price $22.50 prompts over 200 000 tokens 16 September 2026
Cache read price $0.600 prompts over 200 000 tokens 16 September 2026
Cache write price $7.50 prompts over 200 000 tokens 16 September 2026

We record each conditional rate as its own dated observation, so a discount window that disappears shows up as a change like any other.

How reliable is each host behind Claude Sonnet 4.5?

The cheapest offer is not a bargain if it is down. OpenRouter routes traffic to several upstream hosts for this model and publishes the availability its own router recorded over the last day for each of them. Least reliable first.

HostAvailability, last day Observed
azure/global 89.77 % 18 September 2026
claude-on-aws 98.83 % 18 September 2026
google-vertex/global 99.05 % 18 September 2026
anthropic 99.85 % 18 September 2026
amazon-bedrock 99.93 % 18 September 2026
amazon-bedrock/eu-west-1 100.00 % 17 September 2026
google-vertex/us-east5 100.00 % 13 September 2026

This is availability as OpenRouter's router observed it, not as you would measure it calling the host directly: the network path is not the same. We read it once a day and keep every reading, so a host that was unreliable last August can still be shown to have been unreliable last August.

We publish no time to first token and no throughput. OpenRouter's API carries fields for both and leaves them empty on every endpoint we have read, and we will not fill a number the source does not give.

How has Claude Sonnet 4.5 moved?

Output price, 4 observations between 25 August 2026 and 15 September 2026. Range $15.00 to $15.00. Drawn as a step: a value holds until the next observation, we do not interpolate between them.

How capable is Claude Sonnet 4.5?

IndexScoreObservedSource
Agentic index (Artificial Analysis)17.5 15 September 2026 Artificial Analysis L4
Coding index (Artificial Analysis)52.1 16 September 2026 Artificial Analysis L4
Intelligence index (Artificial Analysis)21.2 15 September 2026 Artificial Analysis L4

These indices are produced by Artificial Analysis and relayed through the catalogue API. They are not our own measurement. See cost per point of capability to compare them against price.

Has Claude Sonnet 4.5 changed price?

No change has been recorded since we started observing this service on 25 August 2026. We record a change only when two successive observations differ, so an empty table here means the values have held.

What does Claude Sonnet 4.5 cost elsewhere?

We track this model at 3 sellers. The same model rarely costs the same everywhere, and the difference is not visible from any single seller's catalogue.

Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 across 2 sellers, side by side, or see every model tracked at more than one seller.

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Where these figures come from

Source: OpenRouter. Every figure on this page was read from OpenRouter's own published price list, and every row above links straight back to it. We publish factual values with attribution, we do not reproduce OpenRouter's content, and we send readers to them. If you publish this source and want us to stop tracking it, write to contact@bertrande.com and we will act on it without argument.

How is this page verified?

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