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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

MAI-Thinking-1 represents Microsoft AI's advanced reasoning model, specifically engineered to tackle intricate and significant challenges, exhibiting superior reasoning capabilities alongside robust software engineering performance within its category. This model features a configuration of 35 billion active parameters and roughly 1 trillion total parameters as a sparse Mixture of Experts, allowing it to maintain a more streamlined inference footprint compared to much larger alternatives while still achieving performance comparable to leading models on essential software engineering benchmarks. Microsoft developed MAI-Thinking-1 from the ground up, utilizing high-quality, enterprise-grade, commercially licensed data, ensuring that its abilities are acquired rather than derived from third-party models. Integral to Microsoft AI’s innovative Hill-Climbing Machine, this model benefits from a collaborative development process designed for ongoing and reliable enhancements throughout all stages of model creation. MAI-Thinking-1 is particularly suited for agentic coding environments, as it is capable of reading code, modifying files, executing tests, detecting errors, and recovering from mistakes made along the way. This ability to adapt and learn in real-time makes it a valuable asset for developers seeking efficiency and reliability in their projects.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

GitHub Copilot Yes 
Microsoft Foundry Yes 
AiAssistWorks Yes 
Aider Yes 
BLACKBOX AI Yes 
C# Yes 
Claude Design Yes 
Claude Max Yes 
Claude Science Yes 
Claude Security Yes 
Claude Sonnet 4.6 No 
Devin Desktop Yes 
Elixir Yes 
Google Antigravity Yes 
Julia Yes 
OpenCode Yes 
RustRover Yes 
Simtheory Yes 
Skymel Yes 
Zo Computer Yes 

Integrations

GitHub Copilot Yes 
Microsoft Foundry Yes 
AiAssistWorks No 
Aider No 
BLACKBOX AI No 
C# No 
Claude Design No 
Claude Max No 
Claude Science No 
Claude Security No 
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Yes 
Devin Desktop No 
Elixir No 
Google Antigravity No 
Julia No 
OpenCode No 
RustRover No 
Simtheory No 
Skymel No 
Zo Computer No 

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

No price information available.
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

Microsoft AI

Founded

2024

Country

United States

Website

microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-thinking-1/

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