28/05/2026
Claude Opus 4.8 is live.
Anthropic says it improves on Opus 4.7 across coding
agentic tasks reasoning
and professional workflows
it is available at the same regular API price
$5 per million input tokens
and $25 per million output tokens
fast mode is now 2.5 times faster
and Anthropic says
it is three times cheaper than before
Claude Code also gets dynamic workflows
where Claude can plan a task
run hundreds of parallel sub agents
and verify the output before reporting back
anthropic says Opus 4.8
is also around four times less likely than Opus 4.7
to ignore flaws in coded road
so this release is not just about a smarter chatbot
it is about AI becoming more useful for long
complex real world work