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claude-sonnet-5

The balanced Claude. Substantially cheaper than Opus and fast enough for interactive use.

Claude You pay 30% of list price OpenAI-compatible Pay as you go

List price · input

$2.00

per 1M tokens · output $10.00

You pay · input

$0.600

per 1M tokens · output $3.00

You save 70% on every call. Same model, same context window, same speed — the only thing that changes is your bill.

Price breakdown

Per 1M tokens	List price	APICLAN	You save
Input	$2.00	$0.600	70%
Output	$10.00	$3.00	70%

Cached input is billed at a fraction of the input rate, so agent tools that resend the same context — Codex, Claude Code, Cline — cost considerably less in practice than the raw token count suggests.

Work out your own cost

Put in the token counts from a typical request. Both columns update as you type.

Input tokens

Output tokens

Number of requests

At list price

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At APICLAN

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What a real session costs

A coding session through Codex on this platform used 90,459 tokens across five requests — roughly seventeen minutes of back-and-forth over a codebase. At list price that is $0.178. The customer paid $0.036.

That is real billing data, not an estimate. Heavy context reuse is exactly where the saving compounds: the same work, one fifth of the invoice.

How to call claude-sonnet-5

The API is OpenAI-compatible. Point your base URL at APICLAN and pass the model name — nothing else in your code changes.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_KEY",
    base_url="https://apiclan.us/v1",
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="claude-sonnet-5",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)

Using Claude Code or the Anthropic SDK? Those clients append /v1/messages themselves, so their base URL is https://apiclan.us with no /v1. Full setup for every client is in the Quickstart.

Other Claude models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M
claude-fable-5	$3.00	$15.00
claude-opus-5	$1.50	$7.50
claude-opus-4-8	$1.50	$7.50

Prices above are what you pay, not list price. Cheaper models in the same family often handle routine work at a fraction of the cost — worth testing before defaulting to the largest one.

Start using it

No subscription, no monthly minimum, no sales call. Top up with USDT and spend what you use — 1 USDT gives you 2 credits of API balance.

Read the 30-second quickstart

Pricing verified 2026-08-24 · 按公开价目表. List prices change; this page is regenerated automatically from live billing data.