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Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic · 27 May 2026 · proprietary
Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. $10.00 / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out
Claude Opus 5 · Δ score 44.1 points · same measured price · $10.00 / 1M tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash is a further stored option with these losses:
128K → 66K max output
Independent LMArena score 1,460.8 ± 4.16 · 52,535 votes
Context window 1M
Maximum output 128K
Input modalities text, image, file
Output modalities text
Published input price $5.00 / 1M tokens
Published output price $25.00 / 1M tokens
Pricing kind fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens Input $5.00/M Output $25.00/M Cached input $0.500/M Cache write $6.25/M Cache write 1h $10.00/M Reasoning Unknown/M Web search $0.01/call Batch discount 50%
Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
11 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
Seller Input Output Precision Uptime (1d) Seller Claude Platform on AWS
claude-on-aws Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.500
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.94% Input $5.00 Output $25.00 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) 99.98% Seller Azure
azure/global Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.500
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown Input $5.00 Output $25.00 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) 97.05% Seller Amazon Bedrock
amazon-bedrock Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.500
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% Input $5.00 Output $25.00 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) 99.93% Seller Google
google-vertex/global Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.500
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.88% Input $5.00 Output $25.00 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) 99.98% Seller Anthropic
anthropic Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.500
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% Input $5.00 Output $25.00 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) 99.98% Seller Azure
azure/us Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.550
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown Input $5.50 Output $27.50 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) — Seller Amazon Bedrock
amazon-bedrock/us Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.550
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown Input $5.50 Output $27.50 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) — Seller Google
google-vertex/us Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.550
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown Input $5.50 Output $27.50 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) — Seller Amazon Bedrock
amazon-bedrock/eu-west-1 Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.550
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown Input $5.50 Output $27.50 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) 99.15% Seller Google
google-vertex/europe Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $0.550
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown Input $5.50 Output $27.50 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) — Seller Anthropic
anthropic/fast Endpoint terms
Cached input /M $1.00
Context limit 1,000,000 tokens
Output limit 128,000 tokens
Tools Listed by endpoint
Reasoning Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% Input $10.00 Output $50.00 Precision undeclared Uptime (1d) 100.00%
Independent scores LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task agenticslides #1of 9 1294 agenticslides(python-pptx) #1of 9 1310 pptxslides #1of 8 1306 python-pptxslides #2of 26 1298 agentichtmlslides #3of 9 1227 agenticslides(html) #3of 9 1230 godotgamedev #4of 30 1236 agenticgamedev #4of 24 1238 Capability Context window 1M Max output 128K Input modes text, image, file Tool use yes Reasoning optional Open weights no
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model in the Opus family. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and a 1M-token...
Questions this page answers What does Claude Opus 4.8 cost? $5.00/M in, $25.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Claude Opus 4.8 have an independent quality score? Claude Opus 4.8 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Claude Opus 4.8? Claude Opus 5 has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Claude Opus 4.8? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 23 Sept 2026. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 23 Sept 2026. Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic SOURCE ID · anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 BALANCED WORKLOAD · 3 tokens in per 1 out $10.00 USD · EFFECTIVE COST PER 1M WEIGHTED TOKENS 1,460.8 LMArena · cc-by-4.0 CONTEXT 1M · INPUT TEXT + IMAGE + FILE BETTER VALUE OPTION Claude Opus 5 EVIDENCE AS OF 23 Sept 2026 · undominated.ai/models/anthropic__claude-opus-4.8/ Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 23 Sept 2026.
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