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Claude Opus 4.8

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The current flagship of the Claude line. Opus 4.8 keeps the 1M-token context window and pushes further on agentic coding, long-horizon reasoning and tool-use reliability. Cached input is priced at $0.50/MTok.

Claude Opus 4.8 is a frontier AI model from Anthropic. It costs $5.000 per million input tokens and $25.000 per million output tokens (blended $11.000/M), with a 1,000,000-token context window.

INPUT
$5.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$25.000/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$11.000/M
unchanged since 3 May
CONTEXT
1,000,000
tokens
What it is good at
  • Agentic coding (Claude Code)
  • 1M-token context
  • Tool use & function calling
  • Long-horizon reasoning
  • Faithful to long instructions
Typical use cases
  • Engineering copilots
  • Codebase-wide refactors
  • Long-document Q&A
  • Multi-step agent workflows

Benchmarks

vs. best public score
Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".
Real GitHub issues solved end-to-end.
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Claude Opus 4.8 cost?

Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5.000 per million input tokens and $25.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $11.000 per million tokens.

What is Claude Opus 4.8's context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 supports up to 1,000,000 tokens of context in a single request.

What is Claude Opus 4.8 best for?

Claude Opus 4.8 is well suited to Agentic coding (Claude Code), 1M-token context and Tool use & function calling.

Who makes Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 is developed and served by Anthropic.

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