Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 5.5 costs less on output ($6.00 against $7.50 per million tokens); Claude Opus 4.8 costs less on input ($1.50 against $2.10). Both on one key at UplinkSwitch, each next to its developer's list price.
Prices · per million tokens, USD
| Tokens | Claude Opus 5.5claude-opus-5-5 | Claude Opus 4.8claude-opus-4-8 |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.10Anthropic lists $4.00 · 47% under | $1.50Anthropic lists $5.00 · 70% under |
| Cached input | $0.12Anthropic lists $0.20 · 40% under | $0.15Anthropic lists $0.50 · 70% under |
| Output | $6.00Anthropic lists $20.00 · 70% under | $7.50Anthropic lists $25.00 · 70% under |
| Formats | Anthropic SDK, OpenAI SDK | Anthropic SDK, OpenAI SDK |
| Developer | Anthropic | Anthropic |
List price: each developer's published rate, read October 2026. A model with no cached rate bills cached tokens at its input rate. Live from GET https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/catalog.
Same key, same URL
One base URL and one key serve both models. The request below calls Claude Opus 5.5; put claude-opus-4-8 in the model field to call Claude Opus 4.8 instead.
shell
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"claude-opus-5-5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'Model pages: Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Opus 4.8. Pricing by family: Claude. More comparisons: Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Questions
- Which costs less, Claude Opus 5.5 or Claude Opus 4.8?
- Claude Opus 5.5 costs less on output ($6.00 against $7.50 per million tokens); Claude Opus 4.8 costs less on input ($1.50 against $2.10).
- Can I switch between them by changing the model id?
- Yes. Both answer in the Anthropic SDK and OpenAI SDK format at the same base URL with the same key. Change the model id from claude-opus-5-5 to claude-opus-4-8 and nothing else.
- Is there a subscription?
- No. Prepaid credit from $10, with no subscription or monthly fee. Each top-up locks your prices for 30 days.