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Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8
anthropic·anthropic/anthropic-claude-opus-4.8·GA·Closed·claude-opus series·NEW
Flagship Claude model for deep reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agents
At a glance
Reference price$5.00 / $25.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.50 · DigitalOcean
Lowest paid$5.00 / $25.00
DigitalOcean Cloud
Context1,000,000
Output limit128,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use? Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImage
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-05-28 / 2026-05-29
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | Cloud | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | $6.25 | 1,000,000 | 128,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1DigitalOcean$1,710.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = max
Related models
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended