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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 4.5

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Anthropic · 1M context  |  Anthropic · 200k context

Pricing Comparison

MetricClaude Opus 4.8Claude Opus 4.5
Input / 1M tokens$5$15
Output / 1M tokens$25$75
Cached input / 1M$0.5$1.5
Context window1M200k
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic

Cost Calculator

💰 Claude Opus 4.8 saves $10,500.00/month (67% cheaper)
AClaude Opus 4.8CHEAPER
Per request$0.0175
Daily$175.00
Monthly$5,250.00
Yearly$63,875.00
AClaude Opus 4.5
Per request$0.0525
Daily$525.00
Monthly$15,750.00
Yearly$191,625.00
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Choose Claude Opus 4.8 when…

  • ✓ Cheaper for RAG & document retrieval (lower input cost)
  • ✓ 67% cheaper per input token
  • ✓ Cheaper for generation-heavy workloads (lower output cost)
  • ✓ Larger context window (1M vs 200k) — better for long documents
  • ✓ Cheaper cached price ($0.5 vs $1.5/1M)
  • ✓ Optimized for: Complex reasoning & coding
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Choose Claude Opus 4.5 when…

  • ✓ Optimized for: Complex reasoning & coding

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