Use case
Claude Sonnet 5 prepaid credits
prepaid credits notes for claude-sonnet-5: the rate card, a worked volume, and when to send this ID. A sample of 1 million input tokens plus 200 thousand output tokens is about $0.800 on corouter (input $0.400, output $0.400).
Prepaid credits, not a vendor subscription
Create a console account, add at least $5, and spend it on claude-sonnet-5. There is no subscription tier. Developers in mainland China use the same path: prepaid USD credits and requests to https://api.corouter.co.
corouter is not affiliated with OpenAI or Anthropic, and it does not promise network reachability. The account, the balance, and the rate card are what the console and this site publish.
The rate for this ID
Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5) lists at $2.00 input and $10.00 output per million tokens. corouter bills $0.400 input and $2.00 output. Context is 1M.
Claude Sonnet 5 lists below Sonnet 4.6 on both input and output and keeps the 1M window plus the Code tag. Send claude-sonnet-5 for that newer Sonnet ID.
A sample of 1 million input tokens plus 200 thousand output tokens is about $0.800 on corouter (input $0.400, output $0.400).
Questions
- Which model ID should the request send?
- Send claude-sonnet-5. Do not put a different name in the model field.
- What is the minimum top-up?
- Prepaid credits, $5 minimum top-up, no subscription tier.