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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock

In us-east-1, Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens against $5.00 — a 1.7× difference. Prices, context, capabilities and region coverage below.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic
anthropic.claude-opus-4-8
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$25.00
Context
1M
Est. / month
$5,850
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic
anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Est. / month
$3,510

Capabilities

Capability Claude Opus 4.8 Claude Sonnet 4.6
Tool use ✓ ✓
Vision ✓ ✓
Prompt caching ✓ ✓
Batch inference ✓ ✓
Streaming ✓ ✓

Region availability

Region Claude Opus 4.8 Claude Sonnet 4.6
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Inference profile only Inference profile only
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Inference profile only Inference profile only
us-west-1 US West (N. California) Inference profile only Inference profile only
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ca-central-1 Canada (Central) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary) Inference profile only Inference profile only
mx-central-1 Mexico (Central) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-west-2 EU (London) Inference profile only On-demand
eu-west-3 EU (Paris) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-south-1 EU (Milan) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-east-2 Asia Pacific (Taipei) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-6 Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-7 Asia Pacific (Thailand) Inference profile only Inference profile only
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv) Inference profile only Inference profile only
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town) Inference profile only Inference profile only
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Inference profile only Inference profile only

31 of 31 regions support both models.

Common questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Claude Sonnet 4.6 cheaper on Amazon Bedrock?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is cheaper on input tokens: $3.00 against $5.00 per 1M in us-east-1, a 1.7× difference. At 2,000 runs a day with 12,000 input and 1,500 output tokens each, that is $3,510 against $5,850 a month before any caching or batch discount.
Does Claude Opus 4.8 or Claude Sonnet 4.6 have the larger context window?
Both have a 1M-token context window.
Which regions support Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Sonnet 4.6?
Claude Opus 4.8 runs in 31 of the 31 AWS regions tracked here and Claude Sonnet 4.6 in 31. 31 regions support both, so a workload that may switch between them should target one of those.
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