Claude 4.8 Opus

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Description

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's highest-performing general-purpose AI model in the Claude 4.x family. It is designed for tasks that require deep reasoning, software engineering, scientific analysis, long-context understanding, and agentic workflows.

Capabilities

Model	Knowledge Cutoff	Input	Output	Context Length	Cost (per 1 million tokens)
claude-4.8-opus	Jan 2026	Text, Image, Pdf	Text	1,000,000	$5.50/1M input $27.50/1M output

info

• 1M represents 1 Million Tokens
• All prices listed are based on 1 Million Tokens
• Supports adaptive reasoning / effort control including xhigh

Availability

Cloud Provider

Usage

curl

curl -X POST https://api.ai.it.ufl.edu/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \
-d '{
    "model": "claude-4.8-opus",
    "messages": [
        {
            "role": "system",
            "content": "You are a helpful assistant."
        },
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Write a haiku about an Alligator."
        }
    ]
}'

python

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
api_key="your_api_key",
base_url="https://api.ai.it.ufl.edu/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="claude-4.8-opus", # model to send to the proxy
messages = [
{ "role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant." },
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a haiku about an Alligator."
}
]
)

print(response.choices[0].message)

javascript

import OpenAI from 'openai';

const openai = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: 'your_api_key',
  baseURL: 'https://api.ai.it.ufl.edu/v1'
});

const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
    model: "claude-4.8-opus",
    messages: [
        { role: "system", content: "You are a helpful assistant." },
        {
            role: "user",
            content: "Write a haiku about an Alligator.",
        },
    ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message)

When to use

• Advanced software engineering and code review
• Long-running autonomous or agentic workflows
• High-resolution vision and screenshot understanding
• Complex multi-step analysis with large context
• Professional knowledge work where consistency matters

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References

1. Anthropic - Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
   https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
2. Artificial Analysis
   https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-4-8