Claude Mythos 5 pricing

Claude Mythos 5 costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens , with cached input at $1. Its context window is 1M tokens. Batch requests are discounted 50%.

Price per million tokens

Input $10
Cached input $1
Output $50
Context window 1M tokens
Batch discount −50%
Minimum prefix to cache 512 tokens
Tokenizer factor ×1.3

Limited availability

What it costs in practice

Monthly cost for three common workload shapes, with prompt caching applied.

Workload Shape Per request Per month
Support chatbot 1.5k in / 400 out, 100k requests/month, 30% cached $0.0402 $4,024
RAG / document Q&A 12k in / 700 out, 50k requests/month, 60% cached $0.117 $5,863
Coding agent 25k in / 2.5k out, 20k requests/month, 80% cached $0.254 $5,070

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Caching on Claude Mythos 5

A cached prefix on this model must be at least 512 tokens. Below that, Anthropic ignores cache_control silently — no error is returned and you pay full input price on every request. A cache hit costs $1 per million tokens, roughly 10% of the base input rate.

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Comparable models from other providers

Model Provider Input Output
GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI $5 $30
GPT-5.5 OpenAI $5 $30
GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI $30 $180
GPT-5.4 OpenAI $2.5 $15

All figures verified 2026-08-18 against Anthropic's official pricing documentation . Fields the provider does not publish are shown as “—” rather than estimated.