Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 4.7
One Opus generation against the last: what actually improved.
What the numbers say
- Output pricing is close: 275 vs 275 credits per 1M tokens.
- Both take the same 1M-token context window.
- Claude Opus 4.8 is the newer release (May 2026 vs April 2026).
Derived from the live registry Zeplik routes and bills against. Credits: 1 credit = $0.10, raw provider rate with a 1.10x margin.
Side by side
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model in the Opus family. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and a 1M-token...
- Provider
- Anthropic
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Input price
- 55.0 credits / 1M tokens ($5.00 raw)
- Output price
- 275 credits / 1M tokens ($25.00 raw)
- Vision (image input)
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Extended reasoning
- No
Best for
- Hard problems where answer quality matters more than cost: strategy, analysis, difficult writing
- Very long documents and codebases: a 1M-token window fits entire books or repositories in one conversation
- Working with images: screenshots, charts, photos and scanned documents alongside text
- Tool use and agents: reliably calls functions, so it can search, run skills and drive workflows
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic
Opus 4.7 is the next generation of Anthropic's Opus family, built for long-running, asynchronous agents. Building on the coding and agentic strengths of Opus 4.6, it delivers stronger performance on...
- Provider
- Anthropic
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Input price
- 55.0 credits / 1M tokens ($5.00 raw)
- Output price
- 275 credits / 1M tokens ($25.00 raw)
- Vision (image input)
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Extended reasoning
- No
Best for
- Hard problems where answer quality matters more than cost: strategy, analysis, difficult writing
- Very long documents and codebases: a 1M-token window fits entire books or repositories in one conversation
- Working with images: screenshots, charts, photos and scanned documents alongside text
- Tool use and agents: reliably calls functions, so it can search, run skills and drive workflows
Try both on Zeplik
The honest answer to most model debates is to run your own prompt on both. Zeplik puts Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Opus 4.7 in the same chat, so you can switch mid-conversation and compare answers on the work you actually do.