Host Azure (US region) raised Claude Sonnet 5 pricing by 10% on all rates
Published 21 September 2026
Price move, per 1M tokens
- Azure (US region) · input↑ 10%$2.00 → $2.20
- Azure (US region) · output↑ 10%$10.00 → $11.00
- Azure (US region) · cache read↑ 10%$0.20 → $0.22
- Azure (US region) · cache write↑ 10%$2.50 → $2.75
| host | rate | was | now | change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure (US region) | input | $2.00 | $2.20 | ↑ 10% |
| Azure (US region) | output | $10.00 | $11.00 | ↑ 10% |
| Azure (US region) | cache read | $0.20 | $0.22 | ↑ 10% |
| Azure (US region) | cache write | $2.50 | $2.75 | ↑ 10% |
all rates: ↑ 10%
If you buy
Budget for a higher spend on every call you route here, and re-check your cache and batch settings so you are not paying the new rate on work you could trim.
The model
Claude Sonnet 5open the model →
Proprietary1000K context12 hosts
intelligence111th of 168 writing89th of 168 coding103rd of 168 agents8th of 55
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 is the middle model in the Claude line. It offers most of the capability of Opus 5 at a much lower price and can handle the same one-million-token request limit. It is the sensible default for production Claude workloads.
Source
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