AnthropicmodelClaude Opus 4.8
Anthropic's upgraded flagship model, better at coding and agent work and more honest about its own progress, at the same price as Opus 4.7.
Details
- About 4x less likely to overlook flaws in code than Opus 4.7, and asks clarifying questions instead of guessing on unclear tasks
- Better at controlling a browser on its own and at long legal-document work, two areas Anthropic tested directly
- Same price as Opus 4.7: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens
- Fast mode dropped to about $10 input and $50 output per million tokens, roughly 3x cheaper than before
- Available on claude.ai, via the API as claude-opus-4-8, and on Google Vertex AI, AWS, and Microsoft
Best for
Long, multi-step coding and agent work where the model runs on its own for a while.
When to use it
You need a model that catches its own mistakes and asks before guessing on unclear tasks.
Who benefits
Developers and teams running Claude for code, research, and document-heavy work.
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