Claude Opus 4.8 pricing: same API rate, cheaper fast mode

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, and the pricing story is unusually clean: the regular Claude API rate did not change. Standard Claude Opus 4.8 pricing: Input: $5.00 per 1M tokens Cached input: $0.50 per 1M tokens Output: $25.00 per 1M tokens Batch input: $2.50 per 1M tokens Batch output: $12.50 per 1M tokens The bigger economic change is fast mode. Fast mode Input Output Opus 4.6 / 4.7 $30.00 / 1M $150.00 / 1M Opus 4.8 $10.00 / 1M $50.00 / 1M That is still a 2x premium over standard Opus 4.8 pricing, but it is no longer a 6x premium.