The Model Gap

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.8

Superseded by Claude Opus 5
Released
2026-05-28
License
proprietary
Context window
1,000K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Not disclosed

Pricing

$5.00 in / $25.00 out per 1M tokens official pricing

In plain English: Superseded by Claude Opus 5 (2026-07-24, same $5/$25 pricing). Anthropic docs move it to 'Legacy models' with a migration guide, but it is formally still Active — tentative retirement not before 2027-05-28 — and serves as Claude Fable 5's automatic fallback for classifier-refused requests. Standard pricing shown; a $10/$50 'Fast Mode' tier is also offered.

Benchmark scores

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🧠 Reasoning(no tools)
🧠 Reasoning(with tools)
💻 Terminal ops
🛠️ Long-horizon coding
🧰 Multi-tool chores
💼 Professional work
🐛 Bug fixing
🔬 Expert science Q&A
⌨️ Contest coding

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