Anthropic · 1M context · updated 2026-07-03

How much does 1 million tokens cost on Claude Opus 4.8?

Input · what you send

$5

per 1M tokens

Output · what it writes

$25

per 1M tokens

What does $10 buy on Claude Opus 4.8?

$10 of output

400,000 tokens

  • ≈ 300,000 words written
  • ≈ 3.3 novels' worth of text
  • ≈ 40,000 lines of code generated

$10 of input

2,000,000 tokens

  • ≈ 2,999 pages read
  • ≈ 2,000 images analyzed
  • ≈ 166.7 hours of speech transcribed

For context: the cheapest model tracked here is Gemini 3 Flash at $3/1M output tokens, and the most expensive is GPT-5.5 Pro at $180 — a 60× spread.Try your own budget in the calculator →

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Compare with other models

ModelInput / 1MOutput / 1Mvs Claude Opus 4.8 (output)
GPT-5.5 Pro$30$1807.2× pricier
Claude Fable 5$10$502× pricier
GPT-5.5$5$301.2× pricier
Claude Sonnet 5$2$102.5× cheaper
Gemini 3.1 Pro$2$122.1× cheaper
Gemini 3.5 Flash$1.50$92.8× cheaper
Claude Haiku 4.5$1$55× cheaper
Gemini 3 Flash$0.50$38.3× cheaper