Claude Opus 4.8: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $25 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M context window. Top of Anthropic’s range and dearer than 94% of this rating. Worth it when the first answer has to be right — Claude Sonnet 4.6 handles routine work for about 2× less.

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Capabilities

API $/1M (in / out)

$5 / $25

Context window

1M tokens

Price / mo

API only

Overview Reviews

Claude Opus 4.8 is an AI model from Anthropic, priced at $5 input and $25 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the frontier tier of this rating — dearer than 94% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 1M tokens in a single conversation, enough for a full codebase or a contract bundle in one pass. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, vision, reasoning, adjustable thinking, tool calling. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$5 / $25per 1M tokens, in / out

Context1M tokenstokens per conversation

VendorAnthropicall models from this vendor

TierFrontierdearer than 94% of models

Cost calculator

1M tokens/mo10M tokens/mo50M tokens/mo200M tokens/mo

Standard$20.00~~AED 73 per month~~

With batch −50%$10.00~~AED 37 per month~~

With caching on input$18.88~~AED 69 per month~~

Standard$200~~AED 735 per month~~

With batch −50%$100~~AED 367 per month~~

With caching on input$189~~AED 693 per month~~

Standard$1,000~~AED 3,673 per month~~

With batch −50%$500~~AED 1,836 per month~~

With caching on input$944~~AED 3,466 per month~~

Standard$4,000~~AED 14,690 per month~~

With batch −50%$2,000~~AED 7,345 per month~~

With caching on input$3,775~~AED 13,864 per month~~

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Claude Opus 4.8 sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Good and poor fit

Good fit

Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
Reading screenshots, charts, scanned documents and photos.
Whole codebases, contract bundles and long transcripts in a single pass.

Poor fit

Classification, routing and short summaries — a small model does these identically for a fraction of the price.

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Vision159 models that read images

Reasoning175 models that think before answering

Adjustable thinking85 models with a reasoning depth dial

Tool calling172 models that call your functions

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Claude Opus 4.8 cost?

$5 / $25 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 18.36 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Claude Opus 4.8?

1M tokens in a single conversation.

What can Claude Opus 4.8 do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, vision, reasoning, adjustable thinking, tool calling, structured JSON output, code execution, long context 1M+, prompt caching, batch API, priority / fast tier, frontier tier, multilingual, proprietary API.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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