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Claude Opus 4.8
CLOSEDAnthropic · Claude 4 family · released May 28, 2026
Model id claude-opus-4-8. Introduced 'dynamic workflows' in Claude Code and a 'fast mode' (2.5x speed) priced at $10/$50 per MTok, three times cheaper than prior fast-mode pricing. Regular (non-fast) pricing unchanged from Opus 4.7 at $5/$25. Best-in-class computer-use/browser-agent model at launch (84% on Online-Mind2Web, self-reported).
ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic
2670.2
Elo · rank #24
Parameters
Undisclosed
Active params
—
Context
1M tokens
Architecture
Dense transformer, architecture undisclosed; adaptive thinking controlled by a runtime effort parameter (low/medium/high/xhigh/max)
License
Proprietary
Languages
—
API price (in/out)
$5 / $25
Modalities
text · vision
Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
best: Claude Opus 5 · 1720
best: GPT-6 Astra · 59.3%
best: Claude Opus 4.5 · 89.4%
best: GPT-6 Astra · 62.7%
best: Claude Fable 5 · 1504
best: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · 54.8%
best: Kimi K3 · 91.2%
best: Gemini 4 Argon · 77.9%
best: GPT-6 Astra · 100.0%
best: Claude Opus 5 · 43.3%
best: Claude Opus 5.5 · 54.6%
best: GPT-5.6 Sol · 89.0%
best: GPT-5.6 Sol · 83.0%
best: Claude Fable 5 · 1932
best: GPT-6 Astra · 96.0%
best: Claude Opus 5.5 · 67.7%
best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 93.5%
best: Claude Fable 5 · 89.3%
best: Claude Opus 5.5 · 81.8%
best: Claude Fable 5 · 85.0%
best: Claude Opus 5.5 · 93.9%
best: Claude Opus 5.5 · 61.4%
best: Claude Opus 5.5 · 89.9%
best: Claude Opus 5 · 97.0%
best: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · 90.6%
best: GPT-5.6 Sol · 34.6%
best: GLM-5.3-Flash · 78.4%
best: this model · 96.7%
Run it locally
Closed weights — available via API only. No local deployment.
Input / M tok
$5
Output / M tok
$25
Claude 4 family
Elo progression across releases
Claude Opus 4May 20251637.6Claude Sonnet 4May 20251533.4Claude Opus 4.1Aug 20251700.2Claude Sonnet 4.5Sep 20251905.6Claude Haiku 4.5Oct 20251518.6Claude Opus 4.5Nov 20252187.9Claude Opus 4.5 (High)Nov 20252220.5Claude Opus 4.5 (Medium)Nov 20252266.8Claude Opus 4.6Feb 20262420.5Claude Sonnet 4.6Feb 20262370.1Claude Opus 4.7Apr 20262650.0Claude Opus 4.8May 20262670.2
API price $5/$25 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)