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Claude API¹ Cost Management¹ Operations¹ TypeScript¹

⬡ API & SDK/2026-07-01Intermediate

A Fail-Closed Model Pricing Registry So New Models Don't Quietly Break Your Cost Math

When Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 landed in the Messages API, rates scattered across my code silently skewed the cost rollup. Here is how to centralize per-model rates and fail closed on unknown models, with complete working code.