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Description
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest flagship AI model built to improve coding performance, reasoning accuracy, agentic task execution, and collaborative AI workflows for developers, enterprises, and advanced productivity use cases. The model serves as an upgrade to Claude Opus 4.7, delivering measurable improvements across benchmarks related to coding, practical reasoning, software engineering, and autonomous task management while maintaining the same pricing structure for standard usage. One of the most significant improvements in Claude Opus 4.8 is its enhanced honesty and judgment during complex tasks, reducing the likelihood of unsupported claims, hidden errors, or overlooked flaws in generated code and analytical outputs. Anthropic’s evaluations show that Opus 4.8 is substantially less likely than previous versions to allow software defects or reasoning mistakes to pass without flagging uncertainty or requesting clarification. The platform introduces new effort control settings that allow users to adjust how deeply the model reasons through tasks, balancing response quality, processing depth, speed, and token usage depending on workflow requirements. Claude Opus 4.8 also powers new dynamic workflow functionality in Claude Code, enabling the model to coordinate hundreds of parallel subagents within a single session to handle large-scale software engineering tasks such as codebase migrations and extensive automation projects. The model supports high-speed fast mode processing, now significantly more affordable than previous versions, while also offering higher-effort reasoning modes optimized for difficult coding and operational workflows.
Description
Claude Opus 5.5 is a frontier AI model from Anthropic built for coding, research, business analysis, computer use, and complex agentic workflows. The model is particularly suited to long-running software engineering tasks such as codebase migrations, audits, debugging, optimization, and large-scale refactoring. Anthropic also positions Opus 5.5 for professional knowledge work including financial analysis, legal workflows, research reports, spreadsheets, presentations, and business automation. Compared with Claude Opus 5, the model is designed to use fewer tokens, generate responses more quickly, and reduce typical workload costs. Its communication style has also been refined to make outputs clearer, easier to scan, and more consistent with user-defined writing requirements. Opus 5.5 includes stronger defenses against prompt injection and is less likely to take irreversible or out-of-bounds actions during autonomous tasks. Enterprise safety features include action classification, an auditable open-source sandbox, code review capabilities, preserved thinking protections, and configurable safeguards for sensitive domains. The model supports zero data retention and is available with additional verification programs for vetted life sciences and cybersecurity organizations. Claude Opus 5.5 is accessible through Anthropic’s applications and API as well as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
API Access
Has API
Yes
API Access
Has API
Yes
Integrations
Anything
Yes
Biela.dev
Yes
Bolt.new
Yes
Brokk
Yes
C#
Yes
C++
Yes
Claude
Yes
Clawd.run
Yes
Google Antigravity
Yes
HTML
Yes
Integrations
Anything
Yes
Biela.dev
Yes
Bolt.new
Yes
Brokk
Yes
C#
Yes
C++
Yes
Claude
Yes
Clawd.run
Yes
Google Antigravity
Yes
HTML
Yes
Pricing Details
$5 per 1M (input)
$5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Pricing for fast mode is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.
Free Trial
No
Free Version
No
Pricing Details
$4 per 1M tokens (input)
$4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.
Cache reads, which account for most costs in agentic and coding workloads, are priced at just $0.20 per million tokens which is 60% cheaper than Opus 5. Opus 5.5 also delivers output over 30% faster than its predecessor.
Cache reads, which account for most costs in agentic and coding workloads, are priced at just $0.20 per million tokens which is 60% cheaper than Opus 5. Opus 5.5 also delivers output over 30% faster than its predecessor.
Free Trial
No
Free Version
No
Deployment
Web-Based
Yes
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
No
iPad App
No
Android App
No
Windows
No
Mac
No
Linux
No
Chromebook
No
Deployment
Web-Based
Yes
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
No
iPad App
No
Android App
No
Windows
No
Mac
No
Linux
No
Chromebook
No
Customer Support
Business Hours
No
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
Yes
Customer Support
Business Hours
No
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
Yes
Types of Training
Training Docs
Yes
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
No
In Person
No
Types of Training
Training Docs
Yes
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
No
In Person
No
Vendor Details
Company Name
Anthropic
Founded
2021
Country
United States
Website
claude.ai/
Vendor Details
Company Name
Anthropic
Founded
2021
Country
United States
Website
claude.ai