Can anyone tell me what the current pricing is for Anthropic’s models?

[dtoomi-ops]

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I remember there was a bit of an uproar a few months ago about limits being used up quickly, because they switched to a different way of calculating costs. Is it still the same now?

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[100rootrain]

Yes, that's still how it works. The change you're remembering is from June 1, 2026, when Copilot moved from premium requests (a fixed multiplier per request) to usage-based billing in GitHub AI Credits. Every interaction is now priced by the tokens it actually uses, at each model's per-token rate, and 1 AI credit = $0.01 USD. Long agent sessions resend a lot of context, so they burn through the allowance much faster than single chat requests did. That's mostly where the uproar came from.

Current Anthropic pricing in Copilot (per 1M tokens, from the official pricing page as of today)

Model	Input	Cached input	Cache write	Output
Claude Haiku 4.5	$1.00	$0.10	$1.25	$5.00
Claude Haiku 5.5 (≤ 100K input)	$0.10	$0.01	$0.125	$0.50
Claude Haiku 5.5 (> 100K input)	$0.50	$0.05	$0.625	$2.50
Claude Sonnet 4 / 4.6	$3.00	$0.30	$3.75	$15.00
Claude Sonnet 5	$2.00	$0.20	$2.50	$10.00
Claude Sonnet 5.5	$2.00	$0.10	$2.50	$10.00
Claude Opus 4.8 / Opus 5	$5.00	$0.50	$6.25	$25.00
Claude Opus 5.5	$4.00	$0.20	$5.00	$20.00
Claude Opus 4.8 (fast mode, preview)	$10.00	$1.00	$12.50	$50.00
Claude Fable 5	$10.00	$1.00	$12.50	$50.00
Claude Fable 5.1	$10.00	$0.25	$12.50	$50.00

As a rough example, a Sonnet 5.5 turn with 50K input tokens and 2K output tokens costs about $0.10 + $0.02 = 12 AI credits. Cached input is 10–20x cheaper than fresh input, so long sessions that reuse context cost less per turn.

Monthly allowances (individual plans)

Plan	Price	Total AI credits / month
Copilot Pro	$10	1,500 (1,000 base + 500 flex)
Copilot Pro+	$39	7,000 (3,900 base + 3,100 flex)
Copilot Max	$100	20,000 (10,000 base + 10,000 flex)

Credits reset on the 1st of each month (UTC) and don't carry over. Code completions and next edit suggestions are still unlimited on paid plans and don't use credits.

Ways to stretch it

• Auto model selection gives a 10% discount on model costs, and Copilot Fusion is 30% off through Nov 30.
• To avoid surprise charges, create a Bundled AI credits budget, set it to $0, and enable "Stop usage when budget limit is reached".

If you're on an older annual Pro / Pro+ plan and stayed on request-based billing, the legacy multipliers still apply instead: Claude Haiku 4.5 = 0.33x, Claude Sonnet 4.6 = 9x, Claude Opus 4.8 = 27x. Those plans don't get access to new models.

Prices change fairly often, so it's worth checking the pricing page before relying on these numbers.

[linqiang-max]

GitHub now lists Claude Fable 5.2 in the Copilot pricing table. The rates per million tokens are $8.00 input, $0.20 cached input, $10.00 cache write, and $40.00 output. For example, 50,000 uncached input tokens and 2,000 output tokens come to $0.48, or 48 AI credits, at the listed rates before any plan-specific adjustments. If you’re on a legacy annual request-based plan, GitHub documents that separately on the same page.