alt Hacker NewsWait, doesn’t the blog post say the price is the same as 4.7?
> Claude Opus 4.8 is available everywhere today. Pricing for regular usage is unchanged from Opus 4.7: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Pricing for fast mode is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.
Where do you see the 2x cost?
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spprashant • today at 6:18 PM
If it spends 2x tokens to achieve the same result, that's effective 2x cost in a manner of speaking
The total cost of running my benchmarks, was 1.6x higher compared to Opus 4.7, mostly because of 2x output tokens:
https://i.snipboard.io/vrdwTa.jpg