Balanced Claude model for coding, analysis, agent workflows, and cost control
Specification
most-agreed values
Context
200K
Max output
64K
Released
2025-05-22
Knowledge cutoff
2025-03-31
Retires
2026-10-14
Open weights
no
Input
text, image, pdf
Output
text
Price
US dollars per million tokens · most-agreed
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Cache read
$0.30
Cache write
$3.75
Long-context price tiers
the rate above each context threshold
| Above | Price | $/M |
|---|---|---|
| 200K | Cache read | $0.60 |
| 200K | Cache write | $7.50 |
| 200K | Input | $6.00 |
| 200K | Output | $22.50 |
Available from 19 hosts
| Host | In $/M | Out $/M | Cache rd | Cache wr | Context | Output | Retires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| poe | $2.60 | $13.00 | $0.26 | $3.20 | 983K | 64K | — |
| jiekou | $2.70 | $13.50 | — | — | 200K | 64K | — |
| abacus | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200K | 64K | — |
| amazon-bedrock · apac | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | — |
| amazon-bedrock · eu | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | — |
| amazon-bedrock · global | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | — |
| amazon-bedrock · us | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | — |
| bedrock_converse | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | 2026-10-14 |
| bedrock_converse · apac | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | 2026-10-14 |
| bedrock_converse · eu | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | 2026-10-14 |
| bedrock_converse · global | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | 2026-10-14 |
| bedrock_converse · us | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | 2026-10-14 |
| databricks | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | 2026-10-09 |
| gmi · gmi | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 410K | 32K | — |
| google-vertex | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | — |
| google-vertex-anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | — |
| helicone | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | — |
| opencode | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 1M | 64K | — |
| vercel_ai_gateway · vercel-ai-gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200K | 64K | — |
Price history
append-only observations · a listing writes a row only when its price moves
| Date | Host | Field | $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | cortecs | Cache read | $0.29 |
| 2026-10-01 | cortecs | Cache read | $0.296 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter | Cache read | $0.30 |
| 2026-10-10 | openrouter | Cache read | $0.30 |
| 2026-09-02 | cortecs | Cache write | $3.624 |
| 2026-10-01 | cortecs | Cache write | $3.707 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter | Cache write | $3.75 |
| 2026-10-10 | openrouter | Cache write | $3.75 |
| 2026-09-02 | cortecs | Input | $2.898 |
| 2026-10-01 | cortecs | Input | $2.989 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter | Input | $3.00 |
| 2026-10-10 | openrouter | Input | $3.00 |
| 2026-09-02 | cortecs | Output | $14.493 |
| 2026-10-01 | cortecs | Output | $14.945 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter | Output | $15.00 |
| 2026-10-10 | openrouter | Output | $15.00 |
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