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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest vs ScaleDown: Summarize

On input price, ScaleDown: Summarize is ~50.0× cheaper. Verified 2026-10-21.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest $2.00/$10.00vsScaleDown: Summarize $0.040/Free

Verdict

On blended price (3:1 input:output), ScaleDown: Summarize is ~133.3× cheaper ($0.040/Free vs $2.00/$10.00 per 1M tokens).

Pricing

Per-million-token list prices, verified 2026-10-21. Green marks the better value.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet LatestScaleDown: Summarize
Input / 1M$2.00$0.040
Output / 1M$10.00Free
Cache read / 1M$0.100—
Blended (3:1)$4.00/1M$0.030/1M
Estimated monthly costAnthropic: Claude Sonnet LatestScaleDown: Summarize
Chatbot10,000 reqs · 800/400 tok$56.00$0.32
Coding agent5,000 reqs · 8000/2000 tok$180.00$1.60
RAG pipeline30,000 reqs · 4000/500 tok$390.00$4.80

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Specifications & capabilities

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet LatestScaleDown: Summarize
Context window1M1M
Max output128K4K
Vision input✓✓
Tool calling✓–
Reasoning✓–

Full details: Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest pricing · ScaleDown: Summarize pricing