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Claude Opus 4.8

anthropic·anthropic/claude-opus-4-8·GA·Closed·claude-opus series·NEW

Top Claude Opus tier for the hardest reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agents

At a glance
Official price$5.00 / $25.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.50 · Anthropic
Lowest paid$0.425 / $2.13
UnoRouter Gateway · 23.5× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context1,000,000
⚠ Providers report 200,000–1,048,576; the table below is authoritative
Output limit128,000
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured outputTemperatureAttachments
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2026-01
Released / updated2026-05-28 / 2026-05-28

Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort

Intelligence57.3
Value67
Coding74.3
Agentic49.4
Output speed54 tok/s
TTFT22.3 s
Cost per task$2.0315
Value formulaIQ 57.3 ÷ min blended $0.850 = 67

Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.

Available at 41 providers38 with public prices · 1 free

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
KenariGatewayFree1,000,000128,000
UnoRouterGateway$0.425$2.131,000,000128,000
XpersonaGateway$1.50$9.25$0.15200,000128,000
Poe
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
Gateway$4.29$21.461,048,576128,000
RequestyGateway$4.50$22.50$0.45$5.631,000,000128,000
NanoGPT
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
Gateway$5.00$25.00$0.501,000,000128,000
Vertex
claude-opus-4-8@default
First-party$5.00
tiered >200K: $10.00
$25.00$0.50$6.251,000,000128,000
ImpossiblGateway$5.00$25.00$0.50$6.251,000,000128,000
OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
Gateway$5.00$25.00$0.50$6.251,000,000128,000
Vertex (Anthropic)
claude-opus-4-8@default
Cloud$5.00
tiered >200K: $10.00
$25.00$0.50$6.251,000,000128,000
AnthropicOfficialFirst-party$5.00$25.00$0.50$6.251,000,000128,000

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

1UnoRouter$191.25
2Xpersona$600.50
3Requesty$1,539.00
4NanoGPT$1,710.00
5Vertex$1,710.00
6Impossibl$1,710.00
11Anthropic · Official$1,710.00

1 more channels offer $0 (Kenari); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.

Switch to UnoRouter to save $1,518.75/mo (89%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.

Benchmark7 items

NameConditionsScoreMetricSource
SWE-Bench Pro69.2resolve rateSource ↗
Terminal-Benchharness: Terminus-2 · v2.174.6success rateSource ↗
SWE-Bench Verified88.6resolvedSource ↗
Humanity's Last Examvariant: no tools49.8accuracySource ↗
Humanity's Last Examvariant: with tools57.9accuracySource ↗
OSWorld-Verified83.4success rateSource ↗
FrontierCodevariant: high effort · dataset: Diamond13.4pass rateSource ↗

The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.

Reasoning control

effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhigheffort = maxeffort = nonebudget_tokens ≥ 1,024Toggle (on / off)

5 / 41 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

Experimental modes2 items

ModeProviderInputOutputCache readCache write
fastAnthropic$10.00$50.00$1.00$12.50
fastGitHub Copilot$10.00$50.00$1.00$12.50

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