Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8
Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on the metrics that decide an agent workload.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Input / 1M | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| Output / 1M | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| Cache read / 1M | $0.10 (−90%) | $0.50 (−90%) |
| Reuse-adj @55% | $1.63 | $8.14 |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Cache capture | 90% | 93% |
| Warm TTFT | 110ms (−66%) | 240ms (−68%) |
| Quality index | 80 | 97 |
Teal marks the better value in each row. Reuse-adjusted assumes 55% prefix reuse and a 25% output share.
Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 when it is cheaper once prefix reuse is priced in, it answers faster on warm cache hits.
Pick Claude Opus 4.8 when it scores higher on the composite quality index, it carries the larger 1M context window, it captures more of the available reuse.
Claude Opus 4.8 leads on quality while Claude Haiku 4.5 leads on reuse-adjusted cost. Send latency- and budget-sensitive volume to Claude Haiku 4.5 and reserve Claude Opus 4.8 for the hard requests. Zumik's aliases route between them automatically under policy.
Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8, answered.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Claude Opus 4.8 cheaper?
At 55% prefix reuse, Claude Haiku 4.5 blends to about $1.63 per 1M tokens and Claude Opus 4.8 to about $8.14. Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper on that basis.
Which has the larger context window?
Claude Opus 4.8 has the larger window: 1M vs 200K tokens.
Which captures more reuse?
Claude Opus 4.8 shows higher measured cache capture (93% vs 90%) in the Zumik corpus.
Let an alias pick for you.
Route to whichever model wins under current policy automatically. Zumik resolves the alias to the best fit per request, so you never hard-code a loser.