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Claude Opus 4.8
Top Claude Opus tier for the hardest reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agents
Line
Claude Opus
Weights
API only
Released
2026-05-28
Context
1M
Input
$0.425 / 1M
Output
$2.13 / 1M
Max output
128K
Coverage
not covered yet
Overview
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's top Claude Opus tier, designed for the hardest reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agents. It is the latest model in the claude-opus line, released on 2026-05-28. It has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens and a maximum output of 128,000 tokens. The weights are not open. It supports reasoning mode, tool calling, and accepts image, PDF, and text inputs, returning text. Pricing starts at $0.425 per million input tokens and $2.12 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.15 per million tokens.
Specs
Pricing
Against Claude Opus 4.7: input $5.00 to $0.425, output $25.00 to $2.13, cached input $0.50 to $0.15.
Range across the hosts that serve it: up to $12.00 per 1M input tokens.
Strengths
- 1,000,000-token context window
- 128,000-token max output
- Reasoning mode for complex tasks
- Tool calling for agent workflows
- Accepts image, PDF, and text inputs
Best for
- Reach for it for hardest reasoning problems
- Reach for it for complex coding tasks
- Reach for it for long-horizon agent workflows
- Reach for it for processing large documents with image and PDF support
How to access
28 hosts serve this model at the price above · the maker's documentation
Claude Opus: every version
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FAQ
- What is the context window?
- The context window is 1,000,000 tokens.
- Does it support tool calling?
- Yes, it supports tool calling and reasoning mode.
- What is the pricing?
- Input from $0.425 per million tokens, output from $2.12 per million, cached input from $0.15 per million.