Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Sonnet Latest: API price and specs

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest is 40% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on input price.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest is 40% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on output price.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest is 40% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Claude Opus 4.8 has a 4.9% larger context than Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest.

Field	Claude Opus 4.8	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest
Lowest input, per 1M	$1.50 +66.7%	$0.90
Median input, per 1M	$5.00 +244.8%	$1.45
Lowest output, per 1M	$9.25 +66.7%	$5.55
Median output, per 1M	$25.00 +221.5%	$7.78
Lowest unit price	$0.001 / request	$0.001 / request
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$3.35 +66.7%	$2.01
Context	1M	1M +4.6%
Max output	128K	8K +93.6%
Providers	34	2 +94.1%
Regions	APAC, AU, EU, GLOBAL, JP, US	US
Accepts	application/pdf, file, image, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text	file, image, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	xpersona	xpersona

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

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Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest?

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest is 40% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on input price. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest is 40% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on output price. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest is 40% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Claude Opus 4.8 or Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest?

Claude Opus 4.8: 1M tokens; Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both Claude Opus 4.8 and Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest?

edenai, xpersona