Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · Claude Opus line · flagship
What changed
Anthropic's updated top-end model: steady coding gains over Opus 4.7 at the same price, plus a new Fast mode that runs the model at a third of the cost.
Compared with Claude Opus 4.7 · the model it replaces
Finishes more multi-step tasks at the command line
Terminal-Bench 2.1 — running real commands to complete a task
74.6%
▲ up from 66.1% · +8 points
Solves 7 in 10 hard real-world coding tasks
SWE-bench Pro — fixing real bugs in real software projects
69.2%
▲ up from 64.3% · +5 points
Costs the same to run as before
Price per 1M tokens — what developers pay, input / output
$5 / $25
same price as Opus 4.7
Where the Claude Opus line stands
Claude Opus 5 is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Every Claude Opus release
Newest first. See the full line with every card →
- Jul 24, 2026Claude Opus 5
- May 28, 2026Claude Opus 4.8 · this page
- Apr 16, 2026Claude Opus 4.7
- Feb 5, 2026Claude Opus 4.6
- Nov 24, 2025Claude Opus 4.5
- Aug 5, 2025Claude Opus 4.1
- May 22, 2025Claude Opus 4
- Mar 4, 2024Claude 3 Opus
- Jul 11, 2023Claude 2
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