Claude Opus 4.8 · API · High effort (default)
The expensive architect — pays for hard repos, long agents, and fewer retries.
Flagship coding ceiling when constraint-heavy, multi-hour, or autonomous work justifies $5/$25.
Overall mean of attribute public scores after peer min-max (40–95 band within scored launch peer set).
- Endpoint
- claude-opus-4-8
- Product
- Anthropic API
- Price
- $5 / $25 per MTok
- Context
- 1000k tokens
Flagship Opus 4.8 API, high effort, 1M context, $5/$25 — expensive coding ceiling.
Six stats · peer public
Peer public (main number / bar) ranks this Build inside the current scored peer set (≈40–95). Raw is the absolute evidence-fusion aggregate before min-max. A low peer score can still be a strong absolute model — see methodology.
When to choose
- Hard repository migration and multi-file refactors
- Autonomous coding agents with named harnesses
- High-stakes reasoning and verification loops
- Everyday chat and low-stakes drafts (use Sonnet/Flash)
- Strict budget / high-volume token farms
- Latency-first interactive sprinters
The job is hard enough that a wrong answer costs more than Opus tokens.
Task proficiencies
Signature strengths and honest flaws
No structured traits or flaws catalogued for this Build yet. Traits are behavioural patterns (beyond raw scores) — added as evidence and field observation accumulate. See Best at / Avoid for above in the meantime.
Traceability
Every factual claim cites an evidence row. Tap a chip to see the benchmark, exact config, source, and caveats behind the number.
Engine pass meth_v0_1_1 (peer min-max vs scored launch peer set). Codex overall 66.9 (B). Attribute public scores map raw aggregates into a 40–95 band within the peer set (methodology min-max). INT uses hierarchical fusion (GPQA primary / HLE secondary / capped bleed).