Anthropic · Frontier
Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 with thinking enabled.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high · xhigh · max
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $5.00
- Output
- $25.00
- Cache read
- $0.50
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.3K tokens
- Longer than 82% of 473 models
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Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
41.8
Tested at max reasoning effort
Better than 86% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
74.3Composite of the coding evaluations
Better than 86% of 168 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
45.6%Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
Better than 60% of 173 scored models
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
17.4%Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
Better than 63% of 173 scored models
AA-Briefcasev1.1
1,319 EloAgentic knowledge work, rated head to head
Better than 68% of 166 scored models
GDPval-AAv2.1
1,454 EloEconomically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
Better than 73% of 187 scored models
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
22.8%Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
Better than 81% of 171 scored models
AA-LCRv1.1
77.7%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 64% of 309 scored models
MLCR-AA
19.4%Long-context reasoning over medical records
Better than 80% of 121 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
48.7%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 92% of 323 scored models
GPQA Diamond
92.0%Graduate-level science questions
Better than 86% of 291 scored models
IFBench
62.2%Following precise output instructions
Better than 61% of 215 scored models
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
21.7%Practical software engineering in a terminal
Better than 74% of 171 scored models
SciCode
54.4%Scientific computing in Python
Better than 72% of 174 scored models
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
58.3%Earlier terminal task suite
Better than 97% of 212 scored models
τ²-Bench Telecom
94.4%Tool use in a customer-support simulation
Better than 85% of 214 scored models
AA-LCR (unversioned)
77.7%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 64% of 309 scored models
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 168.5 tok/s
- Faster than 80% of 260 models
- Time to first token
- 5.7 s
- Quicker than 26% of 260 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 75.6%
- About $1.60 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "anthropic/claude-opus-4.8:thinking",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.8:thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Anthropic
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