Anthropic · Frontier
Claude Opus 4.8
The previous Opus flagship. Still strong on long-horizon agentic work and knowledge work, and the recommended fallback target when a newer model declines a request.
Model ID: claude-opus-4-8
What that means
A worked example
Per-token pricing is hard to feel. Take a moderately chatty production workload: 100 calls a day, roughly 10,000 tokens in and 2,000 out each time. On Claude Opus 4.8 that comes to about:
$300 / month
Before caching, batching or volume discounts, all of which move this number a long way. Illustrative only.
Strong at
- -Long-horizon agents
- -Knowledge work
- -Clear writing
Typical use
- -Overnight coding runs
- -Report generation
- -Memory-backed agents
Same tier
What else to look at
| Model | Developer | Context | In / 1M | Out / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | 1M | $10 | $50 |
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | 1M | $5 | $25 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | 1M | $5 | $30 |
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | 1M | $5 | $30 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | 2M | $2 | $12 |
Verified 2026-08-07.