How much does Anthropic Claude API cost?
Paid plans start at
$17/mo billed yearly
or $20/mo billed monthly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Usage price
- $10/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from www.anthropic.com/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Free plan. Free chat plan with web, desktop and mobile chat, web search, file creation and code execution, memory, Artifacts, up to 5 projects. Usage limits apply. API has no free tier stated.
- Notice before price changes. Prices and plans subject to change at Anthropic's discretion; fee increases require review and acceptance before charge
Watch out for
- Going over the Code execution (beyond free hours) allowance costs $0.05 per hour per container. Included: 50 free hours daily per organization.
- No refunds on a long commitment. Payments generally non-refundable except where terms or local law say otherwise
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Try Claude, Get Team plan, Get Enterprise plan, Start building (opens in new tab)
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup for Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise (self-serve) "Get Enterprise plan"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise sales-assisted needed for invoicing/net terms and AWS Marketplace; self-serve Enterprise has 20 seat minimum "US$20/seat/month, billed annually, 20 seat minimum."
- Support
- Support center available "[Support center](https://support.claude.com/en/)"
What Anthropic Claude API does
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation that offers Claude via free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, and via an API priced per million tokens across Fable, Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models. Batch processing is discounted 50% and prompt caching has separate rates.
- Good for
- Developers and businesses needing token-priced access to several Claude models, plus individuals and teams wanting Claude chat and coding apps.
- Channels
- Web app, Desktop app, Mobile apps, API (Claude Platform), Claude Code, Claude in Chrome, Claude for Microsoft 365, Claude for Google Workspace, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry
- Main product
- Claude (models, apps, Claude Code, and Claude Platform API)
- Also includes
- Claude models: Fable, Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, Pay-per-token API, Batch processing at 50% savings, Prompt caching, Managed Agents, Web search tool
- Connects to
- Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry, Chrome
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Pay-per-token pricing
Input $10 / MTok
- Multiple models available
### Sonnet 5.5 High-performance model for coding and agents
- Fine-tuning supportNot stated
- Streaming responsesNot stated
- Tool and function callingNot stated
- SOC 2 complianceNot stated
- No training on your data
No model training on your content by default
- Discounted batch processing
Save 50% with batch processing.
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no (Team and Enterprise by default); opt-out on individual plans | "No model training on your content by default"pricing |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | available on Enterprise | "HIPAA-ready offering available"pricing |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Team and Enterprise | "Single sign-on (SSO)"pricing |
| Trust center | https://trust.anthropic.com/ | "[Security and compliance](https://trust.anthropic.com/)"pricing |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | – | – | "Free for everyone" |
| Proper month | $20 | $17per month | – | – | "apps and tools create artifacts claude design, slides, docs pro claude code included for e" "$20 if billed monthly." |
| Enterpriseper seat / month plus usage at API rates | – | $20per month | 20 seats minimum | – | "US$20/seat/month, billed annually, 20 seat minimum. Usage cost scales with model and task." |
| Team Standard seatper seat / month | $25 | $20per month | – | – | "el trainingmore information opt-out opt-out opt-out opt-out team for teams of 2 to 150 get" "Per seat / month if billed annually. $25 if billed monthly." |
| Maxper month | $100 | – | – | – | "From $100" |
| Team Premium seatper seat / month | $125 | $100per month | – | – | "el trainingmore information opt-out opt-out opt-out opt-out team for teams of 2 to 150 get" "Per seat / month if billed annually. $125 if billed monthly." |
| API Fable 5.1 input/ MTok | $10per minute | – | – | – | "$10 / MTok" |
| API Fable 5.1 output/ MTok | $50per minute | – | – | – | "$50 / MTok" |
| API Opus 5.5 input/ MTok | $4per minute | – | – | – | "$4 / MTok" |
| API Opus 5.5 output/ MTok | $20per minute | – | – | – | "$20 / MTok" |
| API Sonnet 5.5 input/ MTok | $2per minute | – | – | – | "$2 / MTok" |
| API Sonnet 5.5 output/ MTok | $10per minute | – | – | – | "$10 / MTok" |
| API Haiku 5.5 input (prompts <= 100K tokens)/ MTok | $0.10per minute | – | – | – | "$0.10 / MTok" |
| API Haiku 5.5 output (prompts <= 100K tokens)/ MTok | $0.50per minute | – | – | – | "$0.50 / MTok" |
| Managed Agents runtimeper session-hour | $0.08per minute | – | – | – | "$0.08 per session-hour for active runtime" |
| Web search tool/ 1K searches | $10per minute | – | – | – | "$10 / 1K searches" |
| Code execution (beyond free hours)per hour per container | $0.05per hour per container | – | 50 free hours daily per organization | $0.05/hour per container | "$0.05 per hour per container" |
Free plan: Free chat plan with web, desktop and mobile chat, web search, file creation and code execution, memory, Artifacts, up to 5 projects. Usage limits apply. API has no free tier stated.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- On paid plans, usage credits let you keep working at standard API rates after hitting limits "turn on [usage credits](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12429409-manage-usage-credits-for-paid-claude-plans) to keep working at standard API rates"
- Contract
- Enterprise is annual only; Pro and Team can be monthly or annual "Enterprise plans are only available as annual subscriptions."
- Refunds
- Payments generally non-refundable except where terms or local law say otherwise "Payments are generally non-refundable, except where our [Consumer Terms of Service](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms) say otherwise or where local law requires it."
- Auto renew
- Subscriptions automatically renew until cancelled "we or the App Distributor will automatically charge your Payment Method on each agreed-upon periodic renewal date until you cancel."
- Price change notice
- Prices and plans subject to change at Anthropic's discretion; fee increases require review and acceptance before charge "Price and plans are subject to change at Anthropic's discretion."
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Anthropic PBC
- Online since
- Oct 2, 2001 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "Trusted by the world's leading organizations" their claim
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Questions
Is Anthropic Claude API free?
Yes. Free chat plan with web, desktop and mobile chat, web search, file creation and code execution, memory, Artifacts, up to 5 projects. Usage limits apply. API has no free tier stated. Paid plans start at $20/month.
How much does Anthropic Claude API cost?
Paid plans start at $17 per month billed yearly, or $20 billed monthly.
Does Anthropic Claude API train AI on your data?
No (team and enterprise by default); opt-out on individual plans, according to Anthropic Claude API: "No model training on your content by default"
Is Anthropic Claude API HIPAA compliant?
Anthropic Claude API says a HIPAA BAA is available on Enterprise.