Anthropic ships Opus 4.8 with a 3x fast mode price cut, says Mythos is weeks away

Anthropic announced the release of Claude Opus 4.8 on Wednesday, cutting fast mode pricing by two-thirds. The company hinted that its strongest model, Mythos, will be available to all users within weeks. Standard pricing for Opus 4.8 stays flat at $5 input and $25 output per million tokens, per Anthropic’s blog. Opus 4.8 undercuts GPT-5.5...