Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.8

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Claude Opus 4.8 is a proprietary model from Anthropic, released May 27, 2026. It ranks #40 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1461. It costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window.

LMArena text1461+8 in 30 days
Rank#40/351
95% interval1457–1465
Votes64.1K
Developer
Anthropic
Released
May 27, 2026
Context window
1M
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$5 / $25
Weights
Proprietary
Inputs
Text, Images, Files
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Claude Opus 4.8, LMArena text rating over time
14401448145514631470Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26
LatestClaude Opus 4.8 1461

The rating LMArena published at each update since Jun 3, 2026. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
Terminal-Bench 4.0Coding23.23%27 / 55$17.14
SWE-benchCoding88.60%12 / 85$1.92
Vibe Code BenchCoding82.72%22 / 115$26.88
LiveCodeBenchCoding87.82%11 / 143$5 / $25
Tax Agent BenchFinance30.00%30 / 76$1.69
Legal Research BenchLaw43.75%23 / 85$2.82
MedCodeMedicine53.22%10 / 107$5 / $25
GPQA DiamondReasoning92.42%16 / 138$5 / $25
MMLU-ProReasoning89.58%9 / 138$5 / $25
MMMUReasoning86.59%19 / 93$5 / $25
Terminal-Bench ScienceReasoning4.29%29 / 42$23.14

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena146140 / 35164.1K
CodingLMArena149135 / 34617.4K
MathLMArena148627 / 3393K
Creative writingLMArena145430 / 34912.8K
Instruction followingLMArena147724 / 35122.7K
Hard promptsLMArena148236 / 35142.5K
Multi-turnLMArena147629 / 34911.2K
Long queriesLMArena148420 / 33030.2K
ExpertLMArena150326 / 3057.1K
Legal and governmentIndustries147734 / 3255.5K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries146448 / 3254.8K
Business and financeIndustries145837 / 34412.7K
ChineseLanguages150646 / 3284.4K
SpanishLanguages146535 / 2491.9K
GermanLanguages147327 / 2611.1K
FrenchLanguages148134 / 2522.2K
JapaneseLanguages144337 / 236902
WebDevLMArena155642 / 12418.5K
VisionLMArena129523 / 14618.3K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown (Claude Opus 4.8 (High), Claude Opus 4.8).

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Anthropic

An AI safety and research company that builds the Claude family of models, known for coding, long context and careful behaviour. Founded 2021, based in San Francisco. anthropic.com

Questions

Who makes Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 is made by Anthropic, founded 2021 and based in San Francisco.

How much does Claude Opus 4.8 cost?

$5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is Claude Opus 4.8’s context window?

1M tokens (1,000,000).

How does Claude Opus 4.8 rank?

#40 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1461 (95% interval 1457–1465) from 64,096 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 open source?

No. Claude Opus 4.8 is proprietary and served through its provider’s API.

Sources

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