Claude Opus 4.8
Vendor keyClaude Opus 4.8 is a legacy model in Anthropic's Opus family, released May 28, 2026. Claude Opus 5 is the current Opus model, and Anthropic recommends migrating to it for improved performance. Anthropic describes Claude Opus 5 as a step-change improvement over Claude Opus 4.8.
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per 1M tokens
Input
Output
$5.00
$25.00
Context
1,000,000
up to 128,000 out
Modalities
Released
May 28, 2026
Knows up to Jan 2026
What it would cost you
1000 tokens is roughly 750 English words.
Where this model runs
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Use it from your code
from openai import OpenAI
# Works with the official openai package (pip install openai)
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.flintbeam.com/v1",
api_key="sk-live-your-api-key"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
messages=[
{"role": "system", "content": "You are an experienced software engineer."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Describe the architecture of a distributed cache."}
],
temperature=0.7,
max_tokens=1500
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)