Claude Opus 4.8
Lineage
- Company
- Anthropic
- Claude Opus family
- 4.64.74.855.5the family
- Assistants that offer it
- No assistant in the ranking names it on a page we have read.
- API price
- not recorded
Links read on 10/11/2026 on company pages, the press as a fallback; a link given for a family applies only to its latest version.
Rank in each benchmark
- General intelligenceEpoch AI, ECI index159.9157.8 to 162.320th out of 71
- User preferenceLMArena, Elo score148223rd out of 68
- Agent tasksEpoch AI, APEX-Agents48.9 %38.1 to 59.732nd out of 52
- Code repairEpoch AI, DeepSWE59.0 %14th out of 26
- Coding tasksEpoch AI, CursorBenchnot measured
Each segment of the bar is worth a tenth of the ranking; the 1st groups the best ranked. Rank among models released in 2026 and measured by the benchmark. Sources: Epoch AI, "Capabilities & benchmarking" (CC BY 4.0); LMArena, text with style control (CC BY 4.0); data as of 10 November 2026.
Effort settings
| Setting | Electricity use of a task | Tasks completed | Tokens per task |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE, code repair | |||
| low | not estimated | 40.8 % | 28,923 |
| medium | not estimated | 48.7 % | 41,313 |
| high | not estimated | 51.8 % | 50,064 |
| xhigh | not estimated | 54.4 % | 86,089 |
| max | not estimated | 59.0 % | 135,032 |
Estimation methodology
The effort setting says how much the model reasons before answering: the higher it is, the more tokens it writes, and the more electricity the task needs. Tokens per task are measured by Epoch AI.
Electricity: Projet Celsius estimate. Tokens of the task × electricity ofwriting 1,000 tokens for the size of the model (AI Impact Database, IA-0011), × the data centre overhead (PUE). The scope covers computing on the servers and cooling; it does not cover chip manufacturing, training, the network or the device. CursorBench counts tokens read and written together: the range runs from "all read" to "all written". DeepSWE counts tokens written: the range starts from writing alone.
Model size unknown: electricity use is not estimated. Benchmark: a quick question to an assistant needs about 0.3 Wh.
Claude Opus 4.8 among Anthropic's models, general intelligence
Epoch AI ECI index and its 95% interval, by release date; 12 Anthropic models released in 2026 and measured by the ECI index
Dot: the index measured, at the release dateLine: the 95% intervalClaude Opus 4.83 names in the "Table" tab
Source: Epoch AI, "Capabilities & benchmarking", ECI index. CC BY 4.0 licence.
Continue in the ranking
The full ranking →CompanyAnthropic12models measuredIts assistant, its models, its governance and the electricity of its data centres.The entry →ModelAnthropicClaude Opus 4.728thout of 71 on general intelligenceThe previous version of Claude Opus.The entry →AssistantClaude74out of 100, 1st out of 10Anthropic's assistant; no page we have read says that it offers Claude Opus 4.8.The entry →The hub newsletter
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