{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"new-pricing-tier-for-840-models","canonical_anchor":"new-pricing-tier-for-840-models","heading":"Cost estimates gain a price tier for $8 input and $40 output models","tier":"internal","area":"Cost Tracking","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/new-pricing-tier-for-840-models","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### Cost estimates gain a price tier for $8 input and $40 output models\n\nClaude Code's pricing table now has a tier at $8 input and $40 output per million tokens, with matching cache prices\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code's pricing table, used to estimate what a session costs, gains a tier named `tier_8_40_cache_read_0_20`. Prices are per million tokens, a token being a small chunk of text:\n\n- Input: 8\n\n- Output: 40\n\n- Cache write lasting 5 minutes: 10\n\n- Cache write lasting 1 hour: 16\n\n- Cache read: 0.2\n\n**Why**\n\nCost estimates for a model priced at $8 input and $40 output would use this tier.\n\n- Area: Cost Tracking\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}