Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 With Lower Costs for Agentic AI Tasks

Executive Briefing

• Targets agentic AI workloads that drive excessive enterprise token spending
• Prices drop to $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens starting September 1
• Undercuts Opus 4.8 pricing of $4 input and $25 output per million tokens
• Delivers Opus-level performance via a new tokenizer for greater efficiency
• Rolls out across all Claude subscription tiers, including free and pro plans