Claude Opus 4.8 Pricing
Anthropic · Claude Opus · Deprecated
Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens on the Anthropic API. It supports a 1,000,000-token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens per request. The model supports extended reasoning, image input, tool use, long context. Released May 28, 2026. Pricing verified July 25, 2026.
Claude Opus 4.8 API pricing
Claude Opus 4.8 API pricing is $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, verified July 25, 2026.
- Input (per 1M tokens)
- $5
- Output (per 1M tokens)
- $25
- Batch discount
- 50%
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 128,000 tokens
- Released
- May 28, 2026
Capabilities
Claude Opus 4.8 supports extended reasoning, image input, tool use, long context.
Price history
See full Claude Opus 4.8 price historyClaude Opus 4.8 API pricing has not changed since July 12, 2026.
Price-stable since July 12, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the most common questions about Claude Opus 4.8 pricing, limits, and capabilities.
Notes
SUPERSEDED by Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026. Same pricing ($5/$25 per MTok) but Opus 5 more than doubles capability on agentic terminal coding, hits IMO 42/42 gold, and posts the lowest misalignment score Anthropic has measured. No reason to stay on 4.8 — recommend migrating to Opus 5.