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Anthropic · Claude 4

Claude Opus 4.8

Closed weightsSupersededproprietary

Older Opus model (May 2026) kept available as a legacy option and safeguard fallback.

AA Intelligence
41.8#18 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$5.00/ $25.00
Output speed
56tok/s
Context window
1M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#18 of 142
    42independentv4.3.2, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • SciCode#24 of 94
    54.4%independentAA run, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#20 of 88
    23.6%independentmax effort, Claude Code harness, ±3.6Terminal-Bench 4.0 official leaderboard ↗
    21.7%independentAA run (Terminal-Bench 4.0), max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#17 of 103
    84.6%independentAA run (Terminal-Bench 2.1), max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#25 of 103
    1438independentGDPval-AA v2.1, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • τ²-Bench#11 of 88
    94.4%independentAA run, telecom, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#26 of 142
    92%independentAA run, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#10 of 147
    48.7%independentAA run, no tools, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#12 of 139
    20.9%independentAA run, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

  • ARC-AGI-2#11 of 25
    72.1%independenthigh effort; ARC Prize verifiedARC Prize leaderboard data (semi-private) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 95%

  • ARC-AGI-3#6 of 9
    1.5%independenthigh effort; ARC Prize semi-privateARC Prize leaderboard data (semi-private) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 62.7%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#49 of 139
    77.7%independentAA-LCR v1.1, max effortArtificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#13 of 54
    1481independentclaude-opus-4-8-high; 52,535 votesLMArena text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#26 of 54
    1555independentclaude-opus-4-8-high; 16,154 votesLMArena Code Arena | WebDev leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Specs

Released
May 28, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text, image
Output
text
Context
1M tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$0.50 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$11.00 / 1M
First token
21.61s
  • Price: Claude API pricing ↗ Legacy but still available. Still used as a safeguard fallback for cybersecurity tasks on Opus 5.5.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.8 (max effort) ↗

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