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Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking vs Claude Opus 4.8

Compare Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking from Anthropic and Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking
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Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
Details
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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
Details

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking
Claude Opus 4.8
Input /M
$5
$5
Output /M
$25
$25
Cache read /M
$0.5
$0.5
Context length
1,000,000
1,000,000
Max output
128,000
128,000
Time to First Token
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Throughput
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Modalities
textimagepdf
textimagepdf
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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May 28, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

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Throughput (tok/s)

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking
$675 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking, Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking: $25/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How large is each context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking accepts 1,000,000 and Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking and 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking and Claude Opus 4.8 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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