Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Analysis Summary
Claude Opus 4.8 batch is equipped for long-context, multimodal workflows, with vision, file input, tool use, and function calling over a million-token context window. Those features suit codebase review, contract analysis, strategic research, and agent workflows requiring persistent context.
The $2.50 input and $12.50 output pricing supports premium use cases rather than bulk generation. Its practical profile is promising for high-stakes client work, but this particular batch variant has no independent benchmark results. Coding strength, reasoning consistency, and instruction-following reliability therefore remain unverified in the supplied data.
Use it as a pilot option for complex document and tool-connected tasks. Confirm output quality and latency under representative workloads before wider adoption.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude Opus 4.8 batch provides a million-token context, multimodal input, and full tool integration for complex client work, but this batch variant has no independent benchmark record.
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DFO Verdict
Claude Opus 4.8 batch provides a million-token context, multimodal input, and full tool integration for complex client work, but this batch variant has no independent benchmark record.
How Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) compares
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) ranks #7 of 420 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #9 of 193 for coding, #17 of 175 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list. At $2.50 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 14% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on intelligence. The pulled-in content corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.50 | $0.002500 |
| Output | $12.50 | $0.012500 |
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Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model in the Opus family. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and a 1M-token..
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Frequently asked questions about Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
How much does Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) cost?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).
Is Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) ranks #9 of 193 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) do?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) is developed by Anthropic and was released on May 27, 2026.
