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Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

Anthropic · Multimodal · Released May 2026

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Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's previous-generation flagship model, supporting text, image, and file inputs with a 1M-token context window and extended reasoning capabilities.

Strengths
Delivers strong performance on long-horizon agentic work, autonomous reasoning, and knowledge-intensive tasks across multiple modalities.
Best for
Complex multi-turn workflows, reasoning-heavy applications, and tasks requiring sustained context and autonomous problem-solving; now superseded by Claude Opus 5 for cutting-edge reasoning work.
Limitations
Has been superseded by Claude Opus 5 (released mid-2026) for advanced reasoning tasks, and by Claude Fable 5 for the most demanding agentic and coding work.

Input / 1M

$2.50

Output / 1M

$12.50

Cached input / 1M

$0.25

Context window

1M

Also billed

Cache write
$3.12 / 1M

Price history

Price per 1M tokens over timeOutput $12.50; Input $2.50 as of Jul 2026.$0$5.00$10.00Output on 28 Jul 2026: $12.50Out $12.50Input on 28 Jul 2026: $2.50In $2.50Jul 2026

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28 Jul 2026 $2.50 $12.50 $0.25 Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai

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