Claude Opus 4.8 pricing
Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens as of September 2026. Tracked daily since 14 June 2026 across 89 snapshots.
Current rates
- Input: $5.00 per 1M tokens
- Output: $25.00 per 1M tokens
- Cached input: $0.50 per 1M tokens
- Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
No price movement recorded for Claude Opus 4.8 over the tracked period — the rate has held steady.
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Ranked by blended cost assuming a 3:1 input-to-output ratio, which is typical of chat and agent workloads. Only currently callable models with a comparable context window are listed.
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|---|---|---|---|
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