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Complete 2026 guide to Anthropic Claude API pricing. Compare Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5 pricing vs GPT-4o and Gemini, plus practical cost optimization tips to reduce your monthly bill.
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Use a token cost calculator to estimate AI API bills from input tokens, output tokens, request volume, model pricing, cache assumptions, and retries with practical budgeting checks, cost drivers, validation steps, and examples for production AI teams.