Model Details
Owner
Anthropic
Released
May 2026
Status
Active
Context Length
1.0M
Max Output
128K
Providers
Anthropic, Perplexity
Where is Claude Opus 4.8 a perfect fit?
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s high-end hybrid reasoning model built for complex agentic coding and enterprise work. Compared with Opus 4.7, Anthropic emphasizes better long-horizon coding, reasoning-effort calibration, tool triggering, and recovery during lengthy tasks.
- Long-running autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents
- Repository-scale coding, migrations, debugging, and software engineering
- Complex multi-step tasks involving extensive tool use
- Enterprise knowledge work and professional analysis
- Long-context reasoning across large documents and codebases
- Workflows where an agent must plan, execute, verify, and recover from mistakes
- Tasks requiring adjustable reasoning effort to balance quality, latency, and token consumption
- Applications requiring stronger judgment and autonomy than earlier Opus models
- Long-running autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents
- Repository-scale coding, migrations, debugging, and software engineering
- Complex multi-step tasks involving extensive tool use
- Enterprise knowledge work and professional analysis
- Long-context reasoning across large documents and codebases
- Workflows where an agent must plan, execute, verify, and recover from mistakes
- Tasks requiring adjustable reasoning effort to balance quality, latency, and token consumption
- Applications requiring stronger judgment and autonomy than earlier Opus models
Quick Model Estimate
Your GPT-5 Cost Estimate
💰 Total Cost
USD 3.00
for 1000 input + 1000 output tokens
📥 Input (1000 × $5.000000)
USD 1.5000
📤 Output (1000 × $25.000000)
USD 1.5000
Cost Breakdown
📥 Input 50%
📤 Output 50%
Prices updated daily from official provider data.
