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title: "Claude Opus 4.8 — API access"
description: "Claude Opus 4.8 API pricing: official $5/$25 per 1M tokens, $2.50/$12.50 with the flat 50% apiToken.sale discount. Instant key, prepaid balance, same Anthropic API."
url: "https://apitoken.sale/models/claude-opus-4-8"
language: "en"
---
# Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable Opus-tier model — the default choice for agentic coding, long-horizon tasks and hard reasoning. Here is what it costs per token, and how to run it cheaper on the same API.

- **Model ID:** `claude-opus-4-8`
- **Tier:** Opus
- **Context window:** 1M tokens
- **Max output:** 128K tokens
- **Official price (per 1M):** $5 input / $25 output
- **Your price (per 1M):** input $2.5, output $12.5 (flat 50% off)
- **Base URL:** `https://router.apitoken.sale` · **Endpoint:** `POST /v1/messages`

## Best for

- Agentic coding in Claude Code, Cursor and Cline.
- Long-horizon autonomous tasks and complex refactors.
- The hardest reasoning, planning and review work.

## Notes

- Adaptive thinking is the recommended mode; thinking tokens bill as output.
- 1M-token context window at standard pricing — no long-context premium.

## Call it

```bash
curl https://router.apitoken.sale/v1/messages \
  -H "x-api-key: $APITOKEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-opus-4-8", "max_tokens": 1024, "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'
```

## FAQ

**How much does the Claude Opus 4.8 API cost?**

Officially $5 per 1M input tokens and $25 per 1M output tokens. On apiToken.sale the same requests cost 50% less — $2.50/$12.50 at the flat discount applied to every call.

**What is the model ID for Claude Opus 4.8?**

claude-opus-4-8. Use it unchanged with the Anthropic SDK, Claude Code, Cursor or any compatible tool pointed at https://router.apitoken.sale.

**Is Opus 4.8 worth the price over Sonnet?**

For hard agentic and reasoning work, usually yes. For routine coding, Sonnet 5 delivers near-Opus quality at 40% of the token price — many teams route by task.

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