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Sign up for a free API key, then send requests to the /v1/ai/chat endpoint.

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Claude Sonnet 5

Access Claude Sonnet 5 through one API key. Anthropic Sonnet 5 Frontier Mid-Tier.

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents and professional work at $2.95 / $14.77 per 1M tokens. Sonnet 5 is the workhorse for coding assistants, agents and professional writing: near-Opus quality at a mid-tier price, with reasoning effort you control per request.

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Send a message and see Claude Sonnet 5 respond in real time.

POST/v1/ai/chatanthropic/claude-sonnet-5

Message *

Max Tokens

Maximum tokens in the response.

Stream

Real-time tokens

Hit "Send Request" to see the response

Context Window

1M tokens

Max Output

128K tokens

Input Price

$2.95 / 1M tokens

Output Price

$14.77 / 1M tokens

Strengths

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Frontier at a mid-tier price

Near-Opus performance on coding, agents and professional work at $2.95 / $14.77 per 1M tokens.

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Adaptive thinking

Selectable reasoning effort levels let you trade latency for depth on each call.

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1M token context, 128K output

Handles up to 1,000,000 input tokens and returns up to 128,000 output tokens per call.

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Tools, vision and structured output

Function calling, image and file input, and JSON schema outputs.

Quick start

Copy this snippet and start making calls with Claude Sonnet 5.

const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/ai/chat', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Explain API gateways in 2 sentences."
      }
    ],
    "maxTokens": 256
  }),
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data.message.content);

Why use Claude Sonnet 5 through YepAPI?

✓One API key for all models — no separate accounts

✓OpenAI SDK compatible — just change the base URL

✓No monthly minimums — pay per token

✓Switch models with one line of code

✓Full provider passthrough — citations, search results, and all extras included

✓Streaming and non-streaming support on every model

✓Works with Cursor, Claude, LangChain, and any LLM tool

✓Unified billing across all providers

Claude Sonnet 5 API — pricing, context window & access

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents and professional work at $2.95 / $14.77 per 1M tokens. It pairs a 1,000,000-token context window with up to 128,000 output tokens per response, at $2.95 per 1M input and $14.77 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI.

Through YepAPI you call Claude Sonnet 5 on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with a single key — the same key that reaches GPT-6, Claude, Gemini, Grok and the SEO, SERP and scraping APIs. Input: text, images, files.

What is Claude Sonnet 5?

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents and professional work at $2.95 / $14.77 per 1M tokens. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels, so you can dial depth up for hard problems and down for speed, and it carries the Claude 5 generation's 1,000,000-token context window and 128,000 output tokens. It accepts text, images, files as input, handles up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and returns up to 128,000 output tokens per call.

Build with Claude Sonnet 5 via YepAPI

YepAPI serves Claude Sonnet 5 on the OpenAI-compatible /v1/ai/chat endpoint. Point your base URL at YepAPI, add your key, and set the model string to claude-sonnet-5 (or the full anthropic/claude-sonnet-5). Function calling, structured outputs and reasoning settings pass straight through, and switching to any other model on the platform is a one-string change per request.

Claude Sonnet 5 API pricing — $2.95 / 1M input, $14.77 / 1M output

Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.95 per 1M input tokens and $14.77 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI, pay per token with no minimums. Failed calls are never charged, and every request is itemised in your dashboard API Logs so you can see exactly what a 128,000-token response cost.

Claude Sonnet 5 use cases

Sonnet 5 is the workhorse for coding assistants, agents and professional writing: near-Opus quality at a mid-tier price, with reasoning effort you control per request.

Try Claude Sonnet 5 free

Every new YepAPI account includes $5 in free credit with no card required — enough to test Claude Sonnet 5 on your own prompts before committing to paid usage. Create an account, copy your key, and call claude-sonnet-5 right away.

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Frequently asked questions

Input tokens cost $2.95 per 1M tokens and output tokens cost $14.77 per 1M tokens through YepAPI. No monthly minimums — you only pay for what you use.

Claude Sonnet 5 supports a 1M token context window with up to 128K output tokens per request.