PRICING SNAPSHOT 2026-08-04CLAUDE FABLE 5 $10.00/$50.00 MTOKCLAUDE OPUS 5 $5.00/$25.00 MTOKCLAUDE OPUS 4.8 $5.00/$25.00 MTOKCLAUDE SONNET 5 $2.00/$10.00 MTOKCLAUDE HAIKU 4.5 $1.00/$5.00 MTOKGPT-5.6 $5.00/$30.00 MTOKGPT-5.5 $5.00/$30.00 MTOKGPT-5.4 $2.50/$15.00 MTOKGPT-5 MINI $0.25/$2.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.1 PRO $2.00/$12.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.6 FLASH $1.50/$7.50 MTOKGEMINI 3.5 FLASH $1.50/$9.00 MTOKGEMINI OMNI FLASH $1.50/$9.00 MTOKGEMINI 3 FLASH $0.50/$3.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.5 FLASH LITE $0.30/$2.50 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 PRO $0.43/$0.87 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 FLASH $0.14/$0.28 MTOK
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CLAUDE OPUS 4.8 VS GPT-5 MINI

Anthropic vs OpenAI, in USD per million tokens, verified daily against public list prices. Same jobs, both meters running.

THE VERDICT
12.8x

Claude Opus 4.8 costs 12.8x more than GPT-5 Mini for the same job — a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply runs $0.08 vs $0.0063. At 1,000 runs a day, that gap is $2,212.50 a month for identical traffic.

SIDE BY SIDE

Claude Opus 4.8 →GPT-5 Mini →
VendorAnthropicOpenAI
Input / MTok$5.00$0.250
Output / MTok$25.00$2.00
Output multiple5.0x8.0x
1K prompt + 3K reply$0.08$0.0063

SAME JOB, BOTH BILLS

ScenarioClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5 MiniGap
A typical prompt$0.02$0.001912.8x
A 20-turn conversation$0.12$0.009013.3x
Summarizing a 10-page document$0.12$0.008414.3x
One agent run$0.31$0.0212.7x
A code review request$0.10$0.007912.9x

Output sizes use the same editorial ratios as the Burn Calculator. Estimates, not invoices — and price is not a benchmark: the cheaper model is only a bargain if it does the job.

SETTLE IT WITH YOUR OWN PROMPT

Paste a real prompt into the Burn Calculator and see what it costs on Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5 Mini and the other 15 models on the board — plus how much of it is waste either way.