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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Mercury 2.5
List-price comparison ·Claude Opus 4.8 details ·Mercury 2.5 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Mercury 2.5 is the cheapest — 99% less than the priciest here ($10.80/mo vs $1,600.00/mo).
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Mercury 2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.040 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $0.150 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.016 | $0.0001 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 260k tokens |
| Max output | 128k tokens | 65,536 tokens |
| Quality score | 97/100 | 72/100 |
| Tier | Flagship | Balanced |
| Provider | Anthropic | Inception |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Claude Opus 4.8 | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $16.00 | $0.108 |
| 10,000 | $160.00 | $1.08 |
| 100,000 | $1,600.00 | $10.80 |
Claude Opus 4.8
Best-in-class for complex multi-step agentic workflows, long-horizon planning, and large codebase refactors. Strong instruction-following on ambiguous, open-ended tasks.
Highest per-token cost in the catalog and noticeably higher latency — reserve for tasks that genuinely need top-tier reasoning rather than routine completions.
Mercury 2.5
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