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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 API Pricing
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.500). Context window: 1M. Prices verified 2026-08-23 · source
Input / 1M tokens
$5.00
Output / 1M tokens
$25.00
Context window
1M
Max output
128K
What would Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $140.00 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $450.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $975.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $250.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model in the Opus family. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and a 1M-token...