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Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.8

An earlier Anthropic Opus release (May 2026), strong across coding, reasoning and long-context knowledge work; since followed by Opus 5 and 5.5.

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Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .

Overall rank
#21
Tier
A
Score
84.7
Main category
Overall

Strengths

  • Strong SWE-Bench Pro results with adaptive thinking
  • 1M context window for large codebases and documents
  • Consistent top-tier agentic performance

Considerations

  • High output pricing versus Sonnet-tier siblings
  • Now edged by newer Mythos-class and Sonnet 5 on some benchmarks

Price

$5 / $25 per 1M tokens (in/out)

Shown for reference — price is not part of the score.

Score breakdown

Performance
86.0
55% of score
Reputation
88.0
35% of score
Recency
66.0
10% of score

The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →

Verification status

Each field carries its own re-verification date. Amber means older than 90 days — treat those figures as stale until re-checked.

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