Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic's current Opus-tier Claude model, documented for complex reasoning, coding, and multimodal enterprise workloads below the newer Fable tier.
Newer version: Claude Opus 5
Provider
Anthropic
Model family
Anthropic Claude
Multimodal LLM
Cost tier
Opus
Status
Legacy
Why teams choose it
Complex reasoning
Useful for workflows that require structured thinking, multi-step logic, and deeper analysis than lightweight models provide.
Long-context analysis
Helps teams summarize, compare, and extract insights from long documents without losing important nuance.
Coding and tools
Works well for code assistance, tool calling, and agent workflows where instructions must stay consistent across steps.
Cost-efficient routing
Useful as part of a routing stack where cheap models handle drafts and confirmations and this tier handles genuinely hard passages.
Tradeoffs to know
- Verify API model IDs and host availability before switching from Opus 4.7.
Benchmarks
No independent or vendor benchmark scores in this catalog entry.
Technical specs
- Inputs
- text, image
- Outputs
- text
- License
- Proprietary API
- Capabilities
- reasoning
- coding
- analysis
- multimodal
Anthropic Claude family lineup
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Previous versions
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Claude Opus 4.8 FAQ
What is Claude Opus 4.8?
Anthropic's current Opus-tier Claude model, documented for complex reasoning, coding, and multimodal enterprise workloads below the newer Fable tier.
When does Claude Opus 4.8 fit best?
Policy-sensitive drafting
What should teams watch out for with Claude Opus 4.8?
Verify API model IDs and host availability before switching from Opus 4.7.
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