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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Devstral 2

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Claude Opus 4.8 Devstral 2
Input cost / 1M $5.00 $0.40
Output cost / 1M $25.00 $2.00
Context window 1,000,000 tokens 256,000 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

Enter monthly input and output volumes to see total cost savings.

Claude Opus 4.8

Input: 1M × $5.00 = $5.00
Output: 1M × $25.00 = $25.00
Total
$30.00

Devstral 2

Input: 1M × $0.40 = $0.40
Output: 1M × $2.00 = $2.00
Total
$2.40

Total cost savings

$27.60

Devstral 2 saves $27.60 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Claude Opus 4.8 is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Devstral 2 handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Claude Opus 4.8

$5.00 in · $25.00 out / 1M

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Economical model

Devstral 2

$0.40 in · $2.00 out / 1M

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All premium

Claude Opus 4.8

$1,500.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Devstral 2

Claude Opus 4.8

$396.00

Routine slice
$96.00
Premium slice
$300.00

Monthly savings

$1,104.00

73.6% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (claude-opus-4-8, devstral-2) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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