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Anthropic: Claude Opus Latest vs ScaleDown: Summarize

On input price, ScaleDown: Summarize is ~100.0× cheaper. Verified 2026-10-21.

Anthropic: Claude Opus Latest $4.00/$20.00vsScaleDown: Summarize $0.040/Free

Verdict

On blended price (3:1 input:output), ScaleDown: Summarize is ~266.7× cheaper ($0.040/Free vs $4.00/$20.00 per 1M tokens).

Pricing

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

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus LatestScaleDown: Summarize
Input / 1M$4.00$0.040
Output / 1M$20.00Free
Cache read / 1M$0.200—
Blended (3:1)$8.00/1M$0.030/1M
Estimated monthly costAnthropic: Claude Opus LatestScaleDown: Summarize
Chatbot10,000 reqs · 800/400 tok$112.00$0.32
Coding agent5,000 reqs · 8000/2000 tok$360.00$1.60
RAG pipeline30,000 reqs · 4000/500 tok$780.00$4.80

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Specifications & capabilities

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

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