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Why use Claude Opus 4.8 on Anthropic?
Anthropic offers Claude Opus 4.8 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $5.00/1M input tokens. Anthropic is a safety-focused AI research company and creator of the Claude model family, offering API access through the Anthropic Console for text generation, analysis, and coding tasks.
Compare Claude Opus 4.8 across 6 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Python + curlpip install anthropicexport ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic() # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
model="claude-opus-4-8",claude-opus-4-8Request example
import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic() # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
model="claude-opus-4-8",
max_tokens=1024,
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(message.content[0].text)Gotchas
- Use the versioned model ID, e.g. "claude-sonnet-4-6" or "claude-opus-4-7-20251101".
- The examples expect ANTHROPIC_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare Claude Opus 4.8 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| AWS Bedrock | — | — |
| GCP Vertex AI | — | — |
| Microsoft Foundry | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $5.00 | $25.00 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $5.00 |
| Output tokens | $25.00 |
| Query | $10.00 |
Capabilities
About Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's flagship Claude 4.8 model, released May 28, 2026 for agentic coding, long-horizon reasoning, computer use, and professional knowledge work. It supports text and image inputs, adaptive reasoning, tool use, structured outputs, computer-use tools, prompt caching, Batch API, Dynamic Workflows parallel subagents, a 1M-token context window on Anthropic API/Bedrock/Vertex, and 128K max output. Key datapack rows: SWE-bench Pro 69.2%, SWE-bench Verified 88.6%, Terminal-Bench 2.1 74.6%, HLE with tools 57.9%, OSWorld-Verified 83.4%, GDPval-AA 1890 Elo, and MCP-Atlas 82.2%. Standard Anthropic API pricing is $5/M input and $25/M output.