# Claude Token Cost Explained: How Anthropic Charges for Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku

DevFeed: [Claude Token Cost Explained: How Anthropic Charges for Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/claude-token-cost-explained-how-anthropic-charges-for-sonnet-opus-and-haiku-9765.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dodopayments.com/blogs/claude-token-cost-explained-2026/>)

Author: Ayush Agarwal

Published: 2026-06-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Dodo Payments Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dodo-payments-blog.md>)

Topics: [Claude](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/anthropic.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anthropic.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [developer-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [pricing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pricing.md>), [token](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/token.md>)

## AI overview

A guide to Claude token costs that explains Anthropic's separate pricing for input and output tokens, differences among Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku, and practical methods for estimating per-request costs.

## Source excerpt

Claude token cost explained for AI founders. How Anthropic charges per model, what makes tokens expensive, and how to estimate real per-request cost.