
Claude Sonnet API Guide: Pricing & When to Use It Over Opus
A practical Claude Sonnet 4.6 API guide — near-Opus quality at $3/$15 per million tokens. Pricing, strengths, and when Sonnet is the smarter, cheaper choice than Opus.
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A practical Claude Sonnet 4.6 API guide — near-Opus quality at $3/$15 per million tokens. Pricing, strengths, and when Sonnet is the smarter, cheaper choice than Opus.

Complete pricing table for AI APIs — text (GPT-5.5, Claude Opus, Gemini), video (Kling, Sora, Seedance), and image (GPT Image 2). Direct vs gateway pricing.