Claude Opus 4.8
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- Anthropic
- C · CEO & Politics
- Dario Amodei — Pro-AI-regulation; first-ever $1M personal donation to bipartisan Public First super PAC (Jul 2026); otherwise avoids partisan politics
- D · Date
- 2026
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- No free tier
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud (claude.ai + API + Amazon Bedrock + Google Vertex AI + Microsoft Foundry + GitHub Copilot)
- I · Inputs
- Text+Image+Audio
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Daniela Amodei (President), Tom Brown (Co-Founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Multimodal LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- Cyber-capability safeguards retained from Opus 4.7; honesty/deception metrics improved (~17x less likely than Sonnet 4.6 to misreport its own agentic work).
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Claude Pro: $20/mo; Max 5x: $100/mo; Max 20x: $200/mo; API: $5/M input, $25/M output (Fast mode $10/$50)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 8/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 9.5/10 · Currency 6/10 · Access 4/10 · Significance 7/10 → 7.60
- R · What Makes It Special
- Flagship Opus revision, 41 days after 4.7. Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (hundreds of parallel subagents), user-selectable effort control, Fast mode tier. ~4x less likely than 4.7 to let flaws in its own code pass unflagged; 1M-token context. Anthropic framed it as "a modest but tangible improvement."
- S · Stock / Status
- Private ($380B valuation, Feb 2026); confidentially filed for IPO Jun 1, 2026
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- Yes
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @AnthropicAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Multimodal LLM from Anthropic, released 2026.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“Claude Opus 4.8.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/anthropic-claude-opus-4-8.html
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