Overview
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) vs Sonar Pro Search: side-by-side summary
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) and Sonar Pro Search are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast), from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window and is priced by the provider serving it on OpenRouter.
Sonar Pro Search, from Perplexity, has a 200,000-token context window and is priced at $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output on OpenRouter.
- Context window
- Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast): 1,000,000 tokens
- Sonar Pro Search: 200,000 tokens
- Price
- Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast): Pricing varies by provider
- Sonar Pro Search: $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output
- Provided by
- Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast): Anthropic
- Sonar Pro Search: Perplexity