Claude Opus 4.8 — pricing & specs
Claude Opus 4.8 is a flagship model from Anthropic, at capability tier 7 of 8. Live $/M-token pricing and specs from the Mintok catalog, as of 2026-07-15.
$/M-token pricing
as of 2026-07-15 · AnthropicWhat Claude Opus 4.8 costs in practice
At $25/M output tokens, Claude Opus 4.8 is the 4th-cheapest of 4 priced tier-7 models in the Mintok catalog — about 67% above the tier median of $15/M.
| Scenario | Est. cost |
|---|---|
| 1M input + 1M output tokens | $30.00 |
| A 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out) | $0.090 |
| 1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each) | $22.50 |
| 1M-token RAG chat session (900K cached in / 100K out) | $3.85 |
Estimated from list price (as of 2026-07-15) at the token mixes shown; your real cost depends on prompt/response length and cache hit-rate. Model your own volume →
Specifications
- Vendor
- Anthropic
- Family
- Claude Opus
- Capability tier
- 7 / 8
- Size class
- FLAGSHIP
- Category
- GENERAL
- Context window
- 200,000 tokens
- Licensing
- Proprietary
Alternatives at tier 7
Same capability tier, sorted by output price — the cheaper-capable options.
- Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle$10/M out
- GPT-4.5OpenAI$15/M out
- Grok-3xAI$15/M out
- LLaMA 3.1 405BMetaopen/M out
- Llama 3.1 405BMetaopen/M out
- Claude Opus 4.7Anthropicopen/M out
FAQ
How much does Claude Opus 4.8 cost per token?
Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens (cached input $1.50/M), via Anthropic, as of 2026-07-15.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 expensive?
At $25/M output tokens, Claude Opus 4.8 is the 4th-cheapest of 4 priced tier-7 models in the Mintok catalog — about 67% above the tier median of $15/M.
What does a typical request with Claude Opus 4.8 cost?
At list price, a 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out) with Claude Opus 4.8 costs about $0.090, and 1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each) about $22.50.
What is Claude Opus 4.8's context window?
Claude Opus 4.8 supports a 200,000-token context window.
What capability tier is Claude Opus 4.8?
Claude Opus 4.8 sits at capability tier 7 of 8 on the Mintok scale (FLAGSHIP size class).
Is Claude Opus 4.8 open-source or proprietary?
Claude Opus 4.8 is a proprietary model from Anthropic, accessed via API.
Put Claude Opus 4.8 to work
Benchmark it on your prompts, or size a deployment and compare $/M-token against alternatives.
Pricing and specs are maintained by Mintok's catalog watchers from public sources. Not investment advice. Methodology.