Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic's Opus-tier model for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, with a 1M-token context window and an xhigh effort setting for hard tasks.

ActiveReleased May 30, 2026Knowledge cutoff January 31, 2026Available from 2 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data.

Source: Anthropic pricing, Claude models overview

Price per 1M tokens
$5 in / $25 out
Context window1,000,000
Max output128,000
Cache read$0.5 / M
Batch discount-50%
ModalitiesText, Image → Text
Priced across2 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRateBatch
Input$5 / M$2.5 / M
Output$25 / M$12.5 / M
Cache read$0.5 / M$0.25 / M
Cache write · 5 min$6.25 / M$3.13 / M
Cache write · 1 hour$10 / M$5 / M

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$2.5K
at current list prices
Fresh input$1.0K
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$1.5K
Track this automatically →

Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
AnthropicLowest
$5$25$0.5✓First-party API
Cursor
$5$25$0.5—Direct

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
May 30, 2026 – July 10, 2026$5 / $25past
July 10, 2026$5 / $25current

More from Anthropic

Other models from the same provider.

Claude Fable 5
anthropic/claude-fable-5
$10 / $50 in / out per 1M
Claude Opus 4.7
anthropic/claude-opus-4-7
$5 / $25 in / out per 1M
Claude Opus 4.6
anthropic/claude-opus-4-6
$5 / $25 in / out per 1M
Claude Opus 4.5
anthropic/claude-opus-4-5
$5 / $25 in / out per 1M
Claude Sonnet 5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
$2 / $10 in / out per 1M
Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
$3 / $15 in / out per 1M

Stop estimating. Track it.

SuperPenguin meters every Claude Opus 4.8 call your team makes, prices it with this exact rate card, and shows spend by feature, customer, and team.

Get started free

Rates are generated from SuperPenguin's live pricing catalog.