Claude Opus 4.8

class A live

Anthropic's recommended default Claude for most work; a tier below Fable 5, 1M context, text+image. Independently #2 on both arenas.

Layer 1 — factual axes

API & price	$5 / $25 per 1M (cache hit $0.50)	official	source ↗ 2026-07-04
Context	1M	official	source ↗ 2026-07-04
Weights	closed	official	source ↗ 2026-07-04
Multimodal	text+image	official	source ↗ 2026-07-04
Free tier	limited (chat app)	secondary	source ↗ 2026-07-04

Layer 2 — output quality

56 / 100

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (#2 of 170) ↗ measured 2026-07-04

Eligible for Best free Best for API Multimodal

Anthropic’s recommended default Claude for most work; a tier below Fable 5, 1M context, text+image. Independently #2 on both arenas.