Claude Sonnet 5 API
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.
Takes 30 seconds.
Claude Sonnet 5 API pricing
Pay per request from your YepAPI balance — no subscription, no monthly minimum. Prices updated September 27, 2026.
| Token type | Price |
|---|---|
| Input | $2.95 / 1M tokens |
| Output | $14.77 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| What it costs | Per job | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat reply1K input + 500 output tokens | $0.01 | $10.33 |
| RAG answer8K input + 800 output tokens | $0.035 | $35.42 |
| Agent step with tools30K input + 2K output tokens | $0.118 | $118.04 |
| Long document summary100K input + 2K output tokens | $0.325 | $324.54 |
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Try it live
Send a message and see Claude Sonnet 5 respond in real time.
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Claude Sonnet 5 specs
| Provider | Anthropic |
|---|---|
| Model ID | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 |
| Endpoint | /v1/ai/chat |
| Type | Text Generation |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 128K tokens |
| Reasoning | No |
| OpenAI-compatible | Yes — /v1/ai/chat/completions |
How to get a Claude Sonnet 5 API key
- 1
Create an account
Sign up at yepapi.com with Google or email. It takes about 30 seconds.
- 2
Create an API key
Open the dashboard, go to API Keys and create a key. Copy it — it starts with yep_sk_.
- 3
Call Claude Sonnet 5
Send a request to /v1/ai/chat with the x-api-key header and model "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5".
- 4
Pay as you go
Usage is billed per request from your balance. Top up any amount; there is no subscription.
Strengths
Near-Opus performance on coding, agents and professional work at $2.95 / $14.77 per 1M tokens.
Selectable reasoning effort levels let you trade latency for depth on each call.
Handles up to 1,000,000 input tokens and returns up to 128,000 output tokens per call.
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);Claude Sonnet 5 vs similar models
Every model below runs on the same API key — switch by changing the model ID.
| Model | Provider | Price | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | $2.95 in / $14.77 out per 1M | 1M |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | $0.15 in / $0.74 out per 1M | 1M |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | $1.48 in / $7.38 out per 1M | 200K |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Anthropic | $2.95 in / $14.77 out per 1M | 1M |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | $4.43 in / $22.15 out per 1M | 1M |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Anthropic | $4.43 in / $22.15 out per 1M | 1M |
| Nemotron 3 Super | NVIDIA | $0 in / $0 out per 1M | 262K |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Qwen | $0.04 in / $0.19 out per 1M | 1M |
Why use Claude Sonnet 5 through YepAPI?
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.
What developers say
“Switched from SerpAPI and cut our SERP costs by 80%. Same data quality, way simpler billing.”
“One API key for AI models, SERP data, and web scraping. Saved us from managing 4 separate providers.”
“The $5 free credit let us prototype our entire rank tracking feature before committing. No other API does that.”
Frequently asked questions
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.
Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.95 per 1M input tokens and $14.77 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI, billed per request with no monthly fee. For example, a chat reply (1K input + 500 output tokens) costs about $0.01.
Sign up at yepapi.com (Google or email, about 30 seconds), open the dashboard and create an API key. The same key works for Claude Sonnet 5 and every other model — no separate Anthropic account or waitlist.
Use "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5" as the model on /v1/ai/chat. The short alias "claude-sonnet-5" also works.
Yes. Point the OpenAI SDK at https://api.yepapi.com/v1/ai with your YepAPI key and set model to "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5". Streaming works the same way, so existing OpenAI code only needs the base URL and key changed.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports a 1M token context window with up to 128K output tokens per request.
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