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Claude Opus 4.8 dropped May 28, 2026. Same price as 4.7, higher SWE-bench scores, and a model that flags its own mistakes. Here is what actually changed if you build AI agents.
Anthropic shifted enterprise billing to per-token pricing. Every provider is expected to follow within six months. Here's how agent costs change and how to cap them at runtime.
Anthropic shipped a pattern where a cheap model runs the loop and escalates to Opus only when it needs to. The pattern works on any two-model setup. Here is the math and the playbook.
Real costs, real tools, no fluff. M-F when I ship, publish, or learn something worth sending.