Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 - Anthropic
Quick Answer
Claude Opus 4.8, released by Anthropic, enhances performance across benchmarks and offers users control over task effort.
Quick Take
The fast mode operates at 2.5× speed, now at a third of the previous cost, making it a more efficient collaborator for coding and reasoning tasks.
Key Points
- Opus 4.8 improves on Opus 4.7 with better benchmark results.
- Users can now control Claude's effort on tasks for tailored performance.
- Fast mode operates at 2.5× speed, now three times cheaper than before.
- Early testers report higher reliability and sharper judgment in agentic tasks.
- Opus 4.8 excels in coding, reasoning, and practical knowledge work.
Article Excerpt
From source RSS / original summary# Introducing Claude Opus 4. 8. We’re upgrading Claude Opus to a new version: Claude Opus 4. 8. It builds on Opus 4. 7 with improvements across benchmarks, and is a more effective collaborator. It’s available today for the same price. Users on claude. ai now have control over the amount of effort Claude puts into a task. 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. The table below shows how Opus 4.
8 compares to its predecessor and to other models on tests of coding, agentic skills, reasoning, and practical knowledge work tasks. Early testers have found Claude Opus 4. 8 to be more reliable and sharper in its judgement when it’s performing agentic tasks. > On our Super-, Claude Opus 4. 8 is the only
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