Anthropic Opus 4.8 pricing
This Opus landing page is the quickest way to check the latest Opus-tier Anthropic pricing when you want a premium Claude baseline without jumping straight to the new Fable or Mythos tier.
Useful when you are pricing advanced reasoning, research, or customer-facing workflows where output quality matters more than baseline throughput.
How teams usually use this model
Best fit for
- advanced reasoning
- research workflows
- premium customer experiences
Decision guide
Use the Opus tier when you want a premium Anthropic baseline with stronger reasoning quality, but you are not treating the newest Fable or limited Mythos family as the default starting point.
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Current tier breakdown
Use this table when the provider offers multiple service or context tiers and you need something more precise than one headline number.
- Input / 1M
- $5.00
- Cached / 1M
- $0.50
- Output / 1M
- $25.00
- Input / 1M
- $2.50
- Cached / 1M
- $0.25
- Output / 1M
- $12.50
| Service tier | Context tier | Input / 1M | Cached / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Short | $5.00 | $0.50 | $25.00 |
| Batch | Short | $2.50 | $0.25 | $12.50 |
Official reference
Tool Canopy keeps this page tied to the provider source so you can check the original pricing context when an update matters.
Open provider source2026-05-29
This page shows the latest matching changelog date when one exists, and otherwise falls back to the repo dataset date for Anthropic / Opus 4.8.
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Latest change signals
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Common questions about this pricing page
How much does this model cost right now?
Opus 4.8 is currently listed at $5.00 input, $25.00 output, and $0.50 cached input per 1M tokens, with a 1,000,000 tokens context window. If the provider offers multiple tiers, use the tier table below for the more exact split.
When is this model usually the better fit?
Use the Opus tier when you want a premium Anthropic baseline with stronger reasoning quality, but you are not treating the newest Fable or limited Mythos family as the default starting point. Teams usually open this page for advanced reasoning, research workflows, premium customer experiences, then decide whether to move up to a stronger option or down to a cheaper default.
What should I check before I ship with this model?
Before shipping, check the tier split, whether cached-input pricing changes your workload math, and how this model looks on the compare page and pricing tracker. If you still need context, compare it against Anthropic Fable 5 pricing and OpenAI GPT-5.5 Pro pricing and then run the token calculator for a monthly estimate.