Quick Start
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- 2Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8— see the documentation for request format. - 3
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)About Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK. API details: API key via Authorization: Bearer <AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY>. Key from Vercel dashboard. Free $5/month credit; paid tier is provider list price with zero markup. BYOK (bring-your-own-key) also supported with no markup or fee. Model IDs use {provider-owner}/{model-name} — e.g., anthropic/claude-opus-4.6, openai/gpt-5.
Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK.
Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway
| 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 most capable generally-available model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agentic coding, and high-autonomy work. It improves on Opus 4.7 across agentic coding (SWE-bench Pro 69.2% vs 64.3%), agentic terminal coding (Terminal-Bench 2.1 74.6% vs 66.1%), multidisciplinary reasoning (HLE 57.9% with tools vs 54.7%), and agentic computer use (OSWorld-Verified 83.4%). Features a 1M-token context window (200k on Microsoft Foundry), 128k max output tokens, adaptive thinking with effort control defaulting to high, computer use, and a fast mode at 2.5× speed ($10/$50 per MTok). Approximately 4× less likely than Opus 4.7 to leave undetected code flaws. Deprecated Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 should migrate to Claude Opus 4.8.