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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 5
01Head to head
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Claude Opus 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Creator | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Released | 2026-05-28 | 2026-07-24 |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2026-01 | 2026-05 |
| Modalities | text + image → text | text + image → text |
| Capabilities | tool-use, extended-thinking | tool-use, extended-thinking |
| Providers | Anthropic API | Anthropic API |
02Benchmarks · vendor-reported unless verified
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Claude Opus 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 68.8% |
| FrontierCode (mean@5) | — | 53.4 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (accuracy) | 49.8 | — |
| OSWorld-Verified (success rate) | 83.4 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 89.5% |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | — | 59.4% |
| SWE-bench Pro | 69.2% | 79.2% |
| SWE-bench Verified (resolved) | 88.6 | 96 |
| Terminal-Bench (success rate) | 74.6 | — |