Pricing · Anthropic
Claude Mythos 5
Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5, 1M tokens of context. Every number on this page was read off Anthropic's own pricing page — never estimated, never recalled from memory.
How Anthropic describes it
“Most capable model for cybersecurity and biology research”
From Anthropic's documentation
- Where it runs: “Platforms Claude API Amazon Bedrock Google Cloud Microsoft Foundry” (model page, read October 1, 2026)
- Lifecycle: “Retirement Not sooner than June 9, 2027” (model page, read October 1, 2026)
Status at Anthropic
- Status: Active (invite only)
- The page links to "Migrate to Claude Mythos 5.1" Claude Mythos 5.1 pricing →
- Released June 9, 2026.
- Reliable knowledge cutoff Jan 2026; training data cutoff Jan 2026.
- Thinking: Adaptive (always on). Default effort: high.
Read on Anthropic's model page on September 30, 2026.
Pricing
| Input | $10.00 | per 1M tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $50.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $1.00 | per 1M tokens · 0.1× the input price |
| Cache write (5 min TTL) | $12.50 | per 1M tokens |
| Cache write (1 h TTL) | $20.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Batch API | −50% | off input and output · verified September 16, 2026 against Anthropic's pricing page |
At the calculator's starting volume, 1M input tokens and 200K output tokens with no cache hits, Claude Mythos 5 costs $20.00: $10.00 for input and $10.00 for output, at the prices above. Same formula as the calculator; change the volume there.
Where this price sits
$10.00 per 1M input tokens is the 62nd cheapest input price of the 67 current models with a verified price on this site, and the 11th of Anthropic's 14. Output costs 5.0× the input price.
Other current models in the Mythos family:
- Claude Mythos 5.1 1M tokens $10.00 in · $50.00 out
Other price lists Anthropic publishes for Claude Mythos 5
The prices above are Anthropic's Standard list, the one the table and the calculator use. Anthropic also sells Claude Mythos 5 on one other list, each with a condition. Figures and wording are quoted from Anthropic's own pages as read on the date shown; this site computes none of them.
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Batch · 50% discount on both input and output tokens · wait: results when the batch completes or after 24 hours
Printed for Claude Mythos 5: $5.00 input, $25.00 output, per 1M tokens.
The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a 50% discount on both input and output tokens.
You can access batch results when all messages have completed or after 24 hours, whichever comes first.
Source, read September 16, 2026
Mentioned in
One post on this site cites Claude Mythos 5. The sentence is the post's own, taken from where it links here.
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Prompt Caching Is Not 10% Everywhere: What a Cache Hit Costs Across Eight Providers · September 16, 2026
Their predecessors, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, are $1.00 on the same $10.00, the ordinary 0.1×.
Specifications
| API model id | | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Family | Mythos | |
| Context window | 1M tokens | |
| Max output | 128K tokens | |
| Status | Current | |
It returns up to 128K tokens per response, against a context window of 1M tokens.
Questions about Claude Mythos 5 pricing
- How much does Claude Mythos 5 cost per million tokens?
- $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens, read on Anthropic's official pricing page on September 28, 2026.
- What does a cached input token cost on Claude Mythos 5?
- $1.00 per 1M cached input tokens, 10% of the $10.00 input price; a 5-minute cache write costs $12.50, a 1-hour cache write costs $20.00 per 1M tokens.
Anthropic publishes the price, listed as limited availability, but no API model id in its documentation. Batch API discount (batchDiscount 0.5) verified by hand on 2026-09-16 against Anthropic's general pricing page, 'Batch processing' section: 'The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a 50% discount on both input and output tokens', table row 'Claude Mythos 5 ( limited availability ) $5 / MTok $25 / MTok'. Context window and max output read on Anthropic's model page (platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/mythos-5/overview) on 2026-09-30: 'Claude Mythos 5 This model | 1M | 128K | $10 / $50 |' ('Context window 1M tokens', 'Max output 128K tokens').
Verified September 28, 2026 against Anthropic's official pricing page. Confidence: confirmed. No price change recorded for this model. How the data is checked.
Other Anthropic models with a verified price
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- Claude Sonnet 5 Sonnet $2.00 in · $10.00 out
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sonnet $3.00 in · $15.00 out
- Claude Opus 5.5 Opus $4.00 in · $20.00 out
- Claude Opus 5 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.8 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.7 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.6 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.5 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Fable 5.1 Fable $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Mythos 5.1 Mythos $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Fable 5 Fable $10.00 in · $50.00 out
Cheaper or equally priced alternatives
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- GPT-6 Astra OpenAI $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Fable 5 Anthropic $10.00 in · $50.00 out
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