Anthropic has today announced Claude Opus 4.8, the latest version of its AI model, with a focus on improving agentic capabilities.
Available now, Claude Opus 4.8 delivers improvements across a number of different benchmarks, but primarily in agentic tasks. There are also several new features available, as Anthropic explains:
Opus 4.8 launches alongside several new features. Users on claude.ai now have control over the amount of effort Claude puts into a task. Claude Code has a new “dynamic workflows” feature that allows it to tackle very large-scale problems. And fast mode for Opus 4.8—where the model can work at 2.5× the speed—is now three times cheaper than it was for previous models.
In a comparison with Opus 4.7, there are some clear areas of improvement in agentic coding, computer use, and reasoning.
Anthropic specifically says that Opus 4.8 is meant to be a “modest but tangible improvement” on 4.7 and, as such, will be pricing it the same – $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Agents were also a huge focus of Google I/O last week, with the upcoming Gemini 3.5 Pro model expected to deliver further improvements there. Anthropic didn’t compare Opus 4.8 to Gemini 3.5 Flash as they’re a separate class of model, but there were some comparisons made in Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 system card.
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- Claude Code is getting higher usage limits, doubled for most users
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