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Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking

Added May 28, 2026

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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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Claude Opus 4.8 ThinkingAnthropicThis modelClaude Opus LatestAnthropicRemove
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Discovery tierFrontierFrontier
AddedMay 28, 2026Mar 29, 2026
Limits
Context window1M1M
Max output128K128K
Average output1.3K tokens—
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$5.00$4.00Best
Output$25.00$20.00Best
Cache read$0.50$0.20Best
Cache write—$5.00
Performance
Throughput195.7 tok/sBest133.5 tok/s
Time to first token2.8 sBest9.0 s
Request success (24h)100.0%Best99.8%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index41.853.6Best
Coding Index74.3—
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputYesYes
Reasoning effortlow, medium, high, xhigh, maxlow, medium, high, xhigh, max

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking
  • Claude Opus Latest

Intelligence Index

  • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking41.8
  • Claude Opus Latest53.6

Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking tested at max reasoning effort

Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: Better than 86% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 74.3
    • Claude Opus Latest: —

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 45.6%
    • Claude Opus Latest: 63.2%Top

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 17.4%
    • Claude Opus Latest: 33.8%Top

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 1,319 Elo
    • Claude Opus Latest: 1,683 EloTop

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 1,454 Elo
    • Claude Opus Latest: 1,704 EloTop

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 22.8%
    • Claude Opus Latest: 28.8%Top

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 77.7%
    • Claude Opus Latest: 82.7%Top

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 19.4%Top
    • Claude Opus Latest: 15.0%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 48.7%
    • Claude Opus Latest: 55.6%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 92.0%
    • Claude Opus Latest: —

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 62.2%
    • Claude Opus Latest: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 21.7%
    • Claude Opus Latest: 56.6%Top

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 54.4%
    • Claude Opus Latest: 60.4%Top

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 58.3%
    • Claude Opus Latest: —

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 94.4%
    • Claude Opus Latest: —

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking: 77.7%
    • Claude Opus Latest: 82.7%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
85.6%
About $1.15 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.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 100.0%
  • 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.

Read the quickstart
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)

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