Vercel AI Gateway exposes Claude Opus 4.8 through model ID anthropic/claude-opus-4.8. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
Last refreshed 2026-07-26. Next refresh: weekly.
Quick Start
- 1
- 2Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8— see the documentation for request format.
Code Examples
pip install openaiAI_GATEWAY_API_KEYanthropic/claude-opus-4.8creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| 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.