Claude Opus 4.8
Last verified July 24, 2026 · Anthropic pricing ↗$5.00/1M input · $25.00/1M output · 1.0M context · Anthropic
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AnthropicPrevious Anthropic flagship, superseded by Opus 5 on July 24, 2026 at the same $5/$25 price. Standard tier $5/$25 (unchanged from Opus 4.7). Fast mode tier $10/$50 for up to 2.5x output tokens per second (not TTFT; 3x cheaper than 4.7 Fast at $30/$150), in research preview on API and live in Claude Code via /fast. No latency or uptime SLA published; not available with the Batch API; first-party API only. Cache hit: $0.50/MTok. Cache write (5min/1hr): $6.25/$10. Batch: $2.50/$12.50. SWE-bench Verified 88.6, SWE-bench Pro 69.2, USAMO 2026 96.7. API ID: claude-opus-4-8.
Input / 1M tokens
$5
Output / 1M tokens
$25
Context Window
1.0M
Max Output
128K
Price History
No price change recorded since 2026-07-24, when this site started tracking this model; it launched on 2026-05-28.
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Read More About Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 just slipped off the LLM value frontier. A $3 model scores higher on the intelligence index and costs a quarter less to run, and it is not the only flagship the math has passed.
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Anthropic kept the Opus list price flat for the third release running. The headline is the new Fast mode: $10/$50 at 2.5x speed.
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