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No. 02

Claude Opus 4.8

State-of-the-art autonomous coding reliability at half the price of Fable 5.

FrontierClosed weightsText, Image, Pdf
Field notes
Context window
1Mtokens
Max output
128Ktokens
Input price
$5/ 1M tokens
Output price
$25/ 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.50/ 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image, Pdf
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2026
Released
May 2026
Approx. speed
Overview

What this model is

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable Opus release and a state-of-the-art model for autonomous long-horizon agentic execution and coding reliability. It pairs frontier-grade planning and tool use with the durability to run extended agent loops without corrupting state, and adds parallel-subagent workflows and long-horizon memory. At half the price of Fable 5 it is the default frontier choice for demanding production coding agents.

Strengths

  • State-of-the-art autonomous coding reliability
  • Frontier long-horizon agentic execution
  • Strong price-to-capability at the frontier
  • Robust tool use and self-correction
  • Parallel subagent workflows and 1M context

Trade-offs

  • Pricier than balanced-tier models for everyday tasks
  • Not the fastest option on simple jobs
  • No audio/video input
  • Fable 5 edges it out on the very hardest tasks

Best for

  • Production coding agents and Claude Code workflows
  • Long-horizon autonomous workflows
  • Complex debugging and refactoring
  • Computer-use and browser automation
  • Agentic pipelines needing reliability

Not ideal for

  • Ultra-low-cost bulk workloads
  • Realtime low-latency chat
Capabilities

Capability profile

Normalized 0–100 scores, comparable across the whole catalog.

Reasoning96Coding96Math92Writing93Knowledge92Speed55Agentic96Vision88Multilingual90Long Context95
Reasoning
96
Coding
96
Math
92
Writing
93
Knowledge
92
Speed
55
Agentic
96
Vision
88
Multilingual
90
Long Context
95
Benchmarks

How it scores

Public benchmark results, with independent third-party results where available. Bars normalize percentages to 100 and Elo ratings to a 1500 ceiling.

Independent index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Composite of ~9–10 independent evals · Artificial Analysis
56/ 100
BenchmarkResult
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindependent
GeneralArtificial Analysis
56%
SWE-bench Verifiedindependent
CodingSWE-bench
88.6%
SWE-bench Proindependent
CodingSWE-bench Pro
69.2%
τ-benchindependent
Agenticτ-bench
74.6%
LiveBenchindependent
GeneralLiveBench
77.2%
GPQA Diamondindependent
ReasoningIndependent aggregators
93.6%
Terminal-Bench Hardindependent
AgenticArtificial Analysis
58.3%
LMArena Eloindependent
GeneralLMArena
1512Elo
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