AnthropicReleased on May 28, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Claude Opus 4.8 is a language model from Anthropic, released in May 2026, with multimodal input.

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's upgrade to Opus 4.7 and its most capable general-access model at release, with improvements across software engineering, agentic tool use, reasoning, computer use, and knowledge-work benchmarks while shipping

Input
TextImage
Output
Text
Speed
Latency p95500ms
Throughput P9542.0char/s
Cost
$7.22/ 1M · 8:1 in:out
$5.00 in · $25.0 out

Claude Opus 4.8 pricing

Providers

Claude Opus 4.8 starts at $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic. See all 2 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MMax InputMax OutputLatency p95 sThroughput P95QuantInputOutput
Anthropic logoAnthropic
$5.00$25.001.0M128.0K
2.83
42 c/s
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Vertex AI logoVertex AI
$5.00$25.001.0M128.0K
0.50
42 c/s
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Claude Opus 4.8 API

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Claude Opus 4.8 examples

Recent arena outputs from Claude Opus 4.8, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Claude Opus 4.8 license

Claude Opus 4.8 is released under the Proprietary license, which restricts commercial use.

License
Proprietary
Non-commercial

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

FAQ

Common questions about Claude Opus 4.8.

When was Claude Opus 4.8 released?

Claude Opus 4.8 was released on May 28, 2026 by Anthropic. This is the official Claude Opus 4.8 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 available via API?

Yes, Claude Opus 4.8 is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 2 providers tracked on LLM Stats.

Who created Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 was created by Anthropic.

What is the license for Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 is released under the Proprietary license.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 multimodal?

Yes, Claude Opus 4.8 is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where can I use Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 is available through 2 providers including Anthropic, Vertex AI.

Where is the Claude Opus 4.8 paper or technical report?

Claude Opus 4.8 has a paper or technical report available at https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/c886650a2e96fc0925c805a1a7ca77314ccbf4a6.pdf. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.