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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Mai Image 2.6 Flash

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Mai Image 2.6 Flash from Microsoft 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 4.8
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
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Mai Image 2.6 Flash
Microsoft · text, image → text

MAI-Image-2.6 Flash is Microsoft's low-latency version of the latest image model MAI-Image-2.6. It supports image generation in multiple aspect ratios and image-guided editing.

Input$1.75 /M
Output$1.75 /M
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Pricing & Specifications

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

Claude Opus 4.8
Mai Image 2.6 Flash
Input /M
$5
$1.75
Output /M
$25
$1.75
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
1,000,000
32,000
Max output
128,000
4,096
Time to First Token
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Throughput
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Modalities
textimagepdf
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
May 28, 2026
September 5, 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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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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Cost calculator

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

Mai Image 2.6 Flash
$131 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, Mai Image 2.6 Flash?

Mai Image 2.6 Flash: $1.75/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 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Mai Image 2.6 Flash accepts 32,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 4,096 tokens on Mai Image 2.6 Flash.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Mai Image 2.6 Flash accepts text and image input.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Mai Image 2.6 Flash 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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