Anthropic prices Claude Sonnet 5 for IPO-era adoption, not capability gaps
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 with introductory API pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, rising to $3 and $15 after that. Standard Opus 4.8 pricing is $5 and $25. The capability story the company wants to tell is that