Claude Opus 4.8 API at $3.00 / $15.00 per 1M tokens

Anthropic's Opus 4.8 model for agentic coding and hard reasoning. On Qora API you call claude-opus-4-8 through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint at least 40% below Anthropic's official price.

Claude Opus 4.8 pricing vs official

Official prices from Anthropic; Qora prices from qoraapi.com/pricing, both checked November 2, 2026. This model is served in the Stable Claude group (0.6x of official price). Claude 4.7 and later models use Anthropic's newer tokenizer, which produces about 30% more tokens for the same text than earlier Claude models.

What it costs in practice

A workload of 10M input tokens and 2M output tokens costs $100.00 at Anthropic's official price and $60.00 on Qora API, a saving of $40.00.

Quick start

Python (OpenAI SDK)

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://qoraapi.com/v1", api_key="YOUR_QORA_KEY")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="claude-opus-4-8",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

cURL

curl https://qoraapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_QORA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-opus-4-8", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]}'

Claude Code

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://qoraapi.com
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=YOUR_QORA_KEY
export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=claude-opus-4-8
claude

Full walkthrough: Claude Code with a cheaper API.

The same key works in Cursor, Cline, Continue, SillyTavern and any tool that accepts a custom OpenAI base URL. See the docs or this setup guide.

FAQ

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