What is Claude Platform?
Messages API, Claude Console and Managed Agents, with pay-as-you-go token pricing for each Claude model.
How much does Claude Platform cost?
Claude Platform is pay as you go, billed per million tokens by model: from $0.10 input and $0.50 output on Claude Haiku 5.5 to $10 and $50 on Claude Fable 5.1, with a small free credit for new accounts.
- Prompts over 100,000 tokens: $0.50 / $2.50
- Fastest model, for classification and subagents
- Cache reads $0.01 per million tokens
- Cache reads $0.10 per million tokens
- Everyday coding and customer-facing agents
- Full 1M-token context at the same rate
- Cache reads $0.20 per million tokens
- Long-horizon coding and multi-step agents
- Fast mode at $8 / $40
- Cache reads $0.25 per million tokens
- Demanding reasoning and long-running agents
- Batch API halves it to $5 / $25
Most accounts buy prepaid credits in the Claude Console and pay only for successful calls; organizations with a sales agreement are invoiced monthly. New accounts get a small free credit to test the API. The Batch API takes 50% off input and output tokens on every model, and US-only inference costs 1.1 times the standard rate. Managed Agents add $0.08 per session-hour of active runtime, web search costs $10 per 1,000 searches, and code execution includes 1,550 free hours a month per organization, then $0.05 per container hour. Claude chat plans are billed separately, but Max, Ultra and Team include $100, $200 and up to $500 a month in API credits. Prices are in US dollars. Full pricing on platform.claude.com. We checked these prices on .
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Questions about Claude Platform
What is Claude Platform?
Messages API, Claude Console and Managed Agents, with pay-as-you-go token pricing for each Claude model.
Is there a free tier for the Claude API?
Not an ongoing one. New Claude Platform accounts get a small amount of free credit to test the API; after that, you buy credits in the Claude Console and each call is charged at its model's token rate. Anthropic's sales team offers longer trials for enterprise evaluation.
How much does Claude Platform cost?
Claude Platform's paid plans are Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 / $0.50 per million input / output tokens, Claude Sonnet 5.5 at $2 / $10 per million input / output tokens, Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 / $20 per million input / output tokens and Claude Fable 5.1 at $10 / $50 per million input / output tokens.
What are the best Claude Platform alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are OpenAI Platform, Google AI Studio and AIMLAPI.
Where can I try Claude Platform?
On its official website, claude.com.
Does a Claude Pro or Max subscription include API access?
No. Claude's chat plans and the Claude Platform are billed separately, so Pro includes no API usage. Max, Ultra and Team plans do come with monthly API credits of $100, $200 and up to $500, which you claim by linking a Claude Console organization.
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