Claude Opus 4.8 API Pricing Calculator

Model Details

Released

May 27, 2026

Context Length

1,000,000

Max Output

128,000

Where is Claude Opus 4.8 a perfect fit?

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s high-end hybrid reasoning model built for complex agentic coding and enterprise work. Compared with Opus 4.7, Anthropic emphasizes better long-horizon coding, reasoning-effort calibration, tool triggering, and recovery during lengthy tasks.
- Long-running autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents
- Repository-scale coding, migrations, debugging, and software engineering
- Complex multi-step tasks involving extensive tool use
- Enterprise knowledge work and professional analysis
- Long-context reasoning across large documents and codebases
- Workflows where an agent must plan, execute, verify, and recover from mistakes
- Tasks requiring adjustable reasoning effort to balance quality, latency, and token consumption
- Applications requiring stronger judgment and autonomy than earlier Opus models

Quick Model Estimate

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Provider

Modality

Service Tier

Context Size

Input Tokens

(USD 5.0000 per 1M tokens)

Output Tokens

(USD 25.0000 per 1M tokens)

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Your Claude Opus 4.8 Cost Estimate

💰 Total Cost

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for 1000 input + 1000 output tokens

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📤 Output (1000 × $25.000000) —

Cost Breakdown

📥 Input 📤 Output

Prices are watched for changes and checked against the provider's own page.

Pricing

Provider ↕	Modality ↕	Service Tier ↕	Input Price (per 1M tokens) ↕	Output Price (per 1M tokens) ↕	Cached Input (per 1M tokens) ↕	Cached Output (per 1M tokens) ↕	Context Size ↕	View
Anthropic	Text	Standard	$5.0000	$25.0000	$0.5000	$10.0000	1,000,000 tokens	→
Anthropic	Text	Batch	$2.5000	$12.5000	N/A	N/A	1,000,000 tokens	→

No longer offered by

The last prices each provider charged for Claude Opus 4.8 before it stopped offering it. These are no longer on offer. Each row links to that provider's price history.

Provider ↕	Ended ↕	Modality ↕	Service Tier ↕	Input Price (per 1M tokens) ↕	Output Price (per 1M tokens) ↕	Cached Input (per 1M tokens) ↕	Context Size ↕	View
Perplexity	17th Oct 2026Provider stopped offering it	Text	Standard	$5.0000	$25.0000	$0.5000	1,000,000 tokens	→

Recent changes

When Claude Opus 4.8 was newly listed on a provider, moved to legacy or deprecated, or retired.

17th Oct 2026 Discontinued
Perplexity stopped offering Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8.

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FAQs about Claude Opus 4.8

How much does Claude Opus 4.8 cost per 1M tokens?

Claude Opus 4.8 costs between $2.50 and $5.00 per million input tokens, and between $12.50 and $25.00 per million output tokens. The range covers Standard and Batch pricing.

What does a typical workload cost with Claude Opus 4.8?

1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each — 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total — costs $11.25 with Claude Opus 4.8 at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.

Where can I use Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 is available through Anthropic, from $2.50 per million input tokens.

Is there cheaper Claude Opus 4.8 pricing than the standard rate?

Yes. Batch pricing for Claude Opus 4.8 starts at $2.50 per million input tokens against $5.00 on the standard tier, about 50% lower.

What is Claude Opus 4.8's context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens, and returns up to 128,000 tokens in a single response.