Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Anthropic · Multimodal · Released May 2026
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workflows, reasoning-heavy applications, and tasks requiring sustained context and autonomous problem-solving; now superseded by Claude Opus 5 for cutting-edge reasoning work.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- Has been superseded by Claude Opus 5 (released mid-2026) for advanced reasoning tasks, and by Claude Fable 5 for the most demanding agentic and coding work.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
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul 2026 | $2.50 | $12.50 | $0.25 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |