Business & Strategy
August 12, 2026LLM cost planning autumn 2026: Sonnet 5 stays at $2/$10
Anthropic has cancelled the Claude Sonnet 5 price increase scheduled for 1 September 2026, making the introductory $2 input / $10 output per million tokens the permanent standard price. For teams running Claude on Azure through Microsoft Foundry, that removes a planned 50% jump from autumn budgets and reshapes the mid-tier price comparison against GPT-5.6 Terra and Gemini 3.1 Pro.
LLM Pricing
Claude Sonnet 5
Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft Foundry
GPT-5.6
Gemini
Cost Optimization
AI Budgeting
Anthropic
By Technspire Team