> Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium. Media limits expand to 600 images or PDF pages.

For Claude Code users this is huge - assuming coherence remains strong past 200k tok.

EDIT: Don't think Pro has access to it, a typical prompt just hit the context limit.

The removal of extra pricing beyond 200k tokens may be Anthropic's salvo in the agent wars against GPT 5.4's 1M window and extra pricing for that.

The stats claim Opus at 1M is about like 5.4 at 256k -- these needle long context tests don't always go with quality reasoning ability sadly -- but this is still a significant improvement, and I haven't seen dramatic falloff in my tests, unlike q4 '25 models.

p.s. what's up with sonnet 4.5 getting comparatively better as context got longer?

What is OpenAIs response to this? Do they even have 1M context window or is it still opaque and "depends on the time of day"

Normally buying the bigger plan gives some sort of discount.

At Claude, it's just "5 times more usage 5 times more cost, there you go".

"put high level description of the change you are making in log.md after every change"

works perfectly in codex but i just cant get calude to do it automatically. I always have to ask "did you update the log".

(And, yeah, I'm all Claude Code these days...)

If the chat client is resending the whole conversation each turn, then once you're deep into a session every request already includes tens of thousands of tokens of prior context. So a message at 70k tokens into a conversation is much "heavier" than one at 2k (at least in terms of input tokens). Yes?