Hosted by a provider reached through SayGM. The route is sealed in transit and in use; the provider receives the prompt under its API terms.
Released
Jun 2026Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2026Best price on SayGM
-12.7%In
Cached
Out
per Mtok*
Create an API key and set it as GM_API_KEY in your terminal.
curl "https://api.saygm.com/v1/messages" \
-H "x-api-key: $GM_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
-d '{
"model": "claude-sonnet-5",
"max_tokens": 256,
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello!"
}
]
}'SayGM's best available rate for claude-sonnet-5 next to Anthropic's own published list price — 12.7% off.
| Dimension | SayGM price | Anthropic list price |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.746per Mtok | $2.00 |
| Output | $8.73per Mtok | $10.00 |
| Cache read | $0.1746per Mtok | $0.20 |
| Cache write, 5 minute |
What buyers have actually paid on this model recently, across every provider and cache hits.
Input
$1.75
$2.00Cached input
$0.18
$0.20Output
$8.76
$10.00Requests are load balanced across every provider serving this model, each offering its own rate, so what you pay is a blend rather than a single number. These are the blended rates actually paid — priced at what a provider offered, capped at list.
Measured over 1 window: 1,619 requests and 4,208,188 input-side tokens. Most recent window closed 2026-09-25 04:38 UTC.
Every provider currently serving this model, ranked by discount.
| Provider | Discount | In | Out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider 1 | 12.7% off |
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The best available rate for claude-sonnet-5 on SayGM right now is $1.75 per million input tokens and $8.73 per million output tokens.
SayGM's best available rate for claude-sonnet-5 is 12.7% off Anthropic's list price.
The Anthropic SDK. Set its base URL to https://api.saygm.com and your existing Messages API code (/v1/messages) calls claude-sonnet-5 as-is.
| $2.50 |
| Cache write, 1 hour | $3.492per Mtok | $4.00 |
| $1.75 |
| $8.73 |
| Provider 2 | 12.7% off | $1.75 | $8.73 |
| Provider 3 | 12.6% off | $1.75 | $8.74 |
| Provider 4 | 12.6% off | $1.75 | $8.74 |
| Provider 5 | 12.5% off | $1.75 | $8.75 |
| Provider 6 | 12.5% off | $1.75 | $8.75 |
| Provider 7 | 12.4% off | $1.75 | $8.76 |
| Provider 8 | 12.4% off | $1.75 | $8.76 |
| Provider 9 | 12.3% off | $1.75 | $8.77 |
| Provider 10 | 12.3% off | $1.75 | $8.77 |
| Provider 11 | 12.3% off | $1.75 | $8.77 |
| Provider 12 | 12.2% off | $1.76 | $8.78 |
| Provider 13 | 12.2% off | $1.76 | $8.78 |
| Provider 14 | 12.2% off | $1.76 | $8.78 |
| Provider 15 | 12.1% off | $1.76 | $8.79 |
| Provider 16 | 12.1% off | $1.76 | $8.79 |
| Provider 17 | 12.0% off | $1.76 | $8.80 |
Measured on the requests SayGM routed to this model.
Fixed-seed suites SayGM runs against this model.