Using Claude Opus 4.8 on Anthropic

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Anthropic and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Anthropic SDK or REST API to call claude-opus-4-8 — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $5.00/1M input, $25.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

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)

About Anthropic

Creator of Claude AI models, accessed via the Anthropic API and the Anthropic Console (console.anthropic.com). The Console hosts the Workbench prompt playground, API keys, usage analytics, and team billing.

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.

Pricing on Anthropic

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.