Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8

Hybrid reasoning model built for serious coding and AI agents, featuring a 1M context window

Announcements

  • NEW

    Claude Opus 4.8

    May 28, 2026

    Stronger across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, Opus 4.8 has the consistency and autonomy to keep working on long-running tasks.

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  • Claude Opus 4.7

    Apr 16, 2026

    Claude Opus 4.7 brings stronger performance across coding, vision, and complex multi-step tasks. It's more thorough and consistent on difficult work, with better results across professional knowledge work.

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  • Claude Opus 4.6

    Feb 5, 2026

    Claude Opus 4.6 is our most capable model to date. Building on the intelligence of Opus 4.5, it brings new levels of reliability and precision to coding, agents, and enterprise workflows.

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  • Claude Opus 4.5

    Nov 24, 2025

    Claude Opus 4.5 is our most intelligent model to date. It sets a new standard across coding, agents, computer use, and enterprise workflows. Opus 4.5 is a meaningful step forward in what AI systems can do.

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  • Claude Opus 4.1

    Aug 5, 2025

    Claude Opus 4.1 is a drop-in replacement for Opus 4 that delivers superior performance and precision for real-world coding and agentic tasks. It handles complex, multi-step problems with more rigor and attention to detail.

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Availability and pricing

For business users and consumers who want to collaborate with a powerful model on complex tasks, Opus 4.8 is available on Claude for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.

For developers interested in building AI solutions that demand strong intelligence, Opus 4.8 is available on the Claude Platform natively, and in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry.

Pricing for Opus 4.8 starts at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, with up to 90% cost savings with prompt caching and 50% savings with batch processing. To learn more, check out our pricing page. To get started, use claude-opus-4-8 via the Claude API.

For workloads that need to run in the US, US-only inference is available at 1.1x pricing for input and output tokens. Learn more.

Use cases

Opus 4.8 is a premium model for serious coding and knowledge work. It delivers the quality and reliability professionals depend on for software engineering, agentic workflows, and high-stakes enterprise tasks.

With adaptive thinking, Opus 4.8 automatically adjusts how much thinking it uses based on the complexity of the task, spending more time on harder problems and responding quickly to simpler ones. Popular use cases include:

Advanced coding

Opus 4.8 can confidently deliver production-ready code with minimal oversight. It plans carefully, runs for longer with sustained effort, and operates reliably in larger codebases. It catches its own mistakes, so senior engineers can delegate their hardest coding work with confidence.

AI agents

Opus 4.8 powers production agentic workflows, orchestrating complex multi-tool tasks with consistent reliability. It plans deliberately, uses memory to learn across sessions, and drives long-running work forward with minimal oversight.

Enterprise workflows

Opus 4.8 anchors enterprise work: it carries context across sessions, keeps multi-day projects on track, and delivers professional polish on spreadsheets, slides, and docs.

Benchmarks

Claude Opus 4.8 delivers the intelligence and reliability to be your daily driver for serious coding and knowledge work.

Trust and safety

Extensive testing and evaluation ensures the release of Opus 4.8 meets Anthropic’s standards for safety, security, and reliability. The accompanying system card covers safety results in depth.

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Frequently asked questions

We offer Claude models across the spectrum of speed, price, and performance. Opus 4.8 is the model for complex coding and knowledge work. We recommend Opus 4.8 when quality matters and you're shipping every day: production-ready code, capable AI agents, and complex document creation.

Pricing depends on how you want to use Opus 4.8. To learn more, check out our pricing page.