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Claude Opus 4.8

by Anthropic

Current flagship mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$5.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$25.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$10.00

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.500

10% of input — prompt caching

Source: official Anthropic pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-15

Price receipt

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Overview

Anthropic's Opus flagship, refined over 4.7 with broad benchmark gains and a 'dynamic workflows' tool for large multi-step tasks, plus effort control and a faster, cheaper fast mode. $5/$25 per 1M tokens.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/5
Text Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 4/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score81.3%
Perf per $/Mtok8.1
GPQA Diamond
93.6%
SWE-Bench Verified
88.6%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
74.6%
MCP Atlas
82.2%
OSWorld-Verified
83.4%
Humanity's Last Exam
57.9%
HumanEval
88.6%
AutoBench *
15.5%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 42 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 28.8 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1588.3 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1481.4 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #13 of 84 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #10 of 181 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 11 independent measurements
  • Ranks #157 of 181 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at Humanity's Last Exam — 57.9%, #4 of 65

64.8 tokens/sec output 32.1s latency to first token (TTFT)

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Anthropic
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
reasoningmultimodalflagship

Availability verified: listed on Anthropic's own page