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Claude Instant API Pricing 2026

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Overview

Claude Instant. Pricing starts at $0.800 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to - tokens. API access is available through Anthropic.

Context Window
-
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.800
Output$2.40
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
Text only

Pricing Comparison

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Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

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Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.800
$2.400
10.9
43.4
33.0
-
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* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
7.4 (3th pct)
Coding
7.8 (15th pct)
Math
-
MMLU Pro
43.4 (13th pct)
GPQA
33.0 (14th pct)
LiveCodeBench
10.9 (5th pct)
AIME
- (0th pct)
Aider
-
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Frequently Asked Questions

Claude Instant costs $0.000800 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.002400 per 1,000 output tokens.

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