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Claude models billed per token. Production capacity you rent by the word.

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Counts, not a score. 6 of 8 things we look for are published by Anthropic API, and 2 we have not checked yet. A ratio would need a denominator from outside this site. A count does not.

What it costs you

What it really costs to startAll in, not the first-year promotional price.Prepaid credits, pay-as-you-go, no subscription. Cheapest entry rate is Haiku 4.5 at $1/MTok input and $5/MTok output; no minimum purchase is published.API pricing page, Haiku 4.5 row · source · checked 2026-09-07

What it costs to keep alivePer year, once the introductory pricing is over.No renewal fee, only per-token spend. Sonnet 5 holds at $2/MTok input and $10/MTok output after the scheduled rise to $3/$15 was cancelled.Developer docs pricing page, Sonnet 5 pricing note · source · checked 2026-09-07

The gate before the first cent

The gate before it pays anythingThe traffic, sales or balance you must reach before a single cent moves.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

How long before the first paymentThe gap you have to fund out of your own pocket.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

Is it yours or theirs

Who owns what you buildYours, or a room you are allowed to sit in until the rules change?Customer owns the Outputs and keeps all rights to Inputs; Anthropic assigns its interest in Outputs and may not train models on Customer Content.Commercial Terms, Section B (Customer Content) · source · checked 2026-09-07

Can you take it with youThe domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.Nothing to port from Anthropic's side: API inputs and outputs are auto-deleted within 30 days, so the only lasting copy is the one you store yourself.Privacy Center, standard retention timeframe for API users · source · checked 2026-09-07

Can it be soldIs there a resale market, and what does it pay?Account is not sellable as-is: assigning the contract needs Anthropic's prior written consent, while Anthropic may assign freely in a sale of its business.Commercial Terms, M.4 Assignment and Delegation · source · checked 2026-09-07

What takes it all awayThe single rule, ban or dependency that ends it overnight.Anthropic may suspend all access over a suspected Usage Policy breach, and disclaims liability for any loss of data or profits that suspension causes.Commercial Terms, I.3 Suspension · source · checked 2026-09-07

How to read this page

The ten things above are not our idea of what matters. They are what the checklists in twenty hand-written articles on this site already asked, counted up: country and eligibility came first in nineteen of them, waiting time and what you are paid in came next. The payout minimum, the number most people search for, barely appeared. It is one row here, not the headline.

A row marked not publishedmeans we opened the company's own pages looking for it and it was not there. That is a finding, and it is dated. A row marked not checked yet means we have not done the work. Those two are kept apart on purpose: an empty box because we were slow should never look like an empty box because they were quiet.

Found something that has moved? Tell us. It gets checked against the source and the change is dated on the corrections page.

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