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
Side by side
Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Claude Opus 4.8 ThinkingAnthropicThis model | GLM 5.3 Flash TEEZ.aiRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Z.ai |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Open weights |
| Added | May 28, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1M | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 128K | 131.07KBest |
| Average output | 1.3K tokens | 845 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $5.00 | $0.15Best |
| Output | $25.00 | $0.50Best |
| Cache read | $0.50 | $0.03Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 195.7 tok/sBest | 90.3 tok/s |
| Time to first token | 2.8 sBest | 5.7 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 99.9% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 41.8 | 41.8 |
| Coding Index | 74.3Best | 71.5 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| Parallel tools | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, medium, high, xhigh, max | low, high, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
Intelligence Index
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking41.8
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE41.8
Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking tested at max reasoning effort
Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: Better than 86% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 74.3Top
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 71.5
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 45.6%
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 60.4%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 17.4%
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 25.4%Top
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: —
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 0.8%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 1,319 Elo
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 1,452 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 1,454 Elo
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 1,642 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 22.8%Top
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 15.4%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 77.7%
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 80.0%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 19.4%Top
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 11.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 48.7%Top
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 39.9%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 92.0%Top
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 91.2%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 62.2%
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 21.7%
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 32.8%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 54.4%Top
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 51.6%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 58.3%
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 94.4%
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 77.7%
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 80.0%Top
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
- 195.7 tok/s
- Faster than 84% of 256 models
- Time to first token
- 2.8 s
- Quicker than 56% of 256 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 86.3%
- About $1.12 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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