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Claude Opus 4.8
by Anthropic
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RANKED #122 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #159 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.4 · 2,372 VOICES ·
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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...
HAPPY7.3
142 mentions
SAD7.7
162 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 2,463 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Anthropic hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Claude Opus 4.8 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS6.7
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekDelivers frontier multimodal reasoning and coding at a fraction of the cost.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💸 COST EFFICIENT⚡ FAST13.3k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaRuns locally on consumer GPUs for offline multimodal work and coding.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS💻 STRONG AT CODE21.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.3Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuGreat open multimodal choice for complex agentic workflows and long context.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💸 COST EFFICIENT💻 STRONG AT CODE2.9k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
The internet is split on Claude Opus 4.8. Biggest praise: help with code. Biggest gripe: working when you need it.
2184 POSTS · 188 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · X · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · LEMMY · BLUESKY · HACKER NEWS · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (11 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (5 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (19 mentions)
- People find it expensive (7 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (7 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 19 thumbs down
- PriceMIXED FEELINGS
8 thumbs up · 7 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
11 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- SpeedMOSTLY POSITIVE
5 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 7 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
2 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- WritingMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Weekly AI roundup (May 23–30, 2026): Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Mode 3x cheaper, Qwen 3.7 Max beats Claude at half the price, ChatGPT moves into Excel.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“1500% price hike at peak hours and Claude Opus 4.8 is STILL 4x more expensive..”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Open-source models are closing the coding gap with GPT/Claude/Gemini ~1.5x faster than the frontier is advancing, and on decontaminated benchmarks a 27B model already beats Claude Opus 4.8 [live dashboard + analysis].”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Claude opus 4.8 Hallucinations.”
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Grok 4.6
Gemini 3.7 Flash> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-08-01 · 1375 UPVOTESDeepSeek is 28x cheaper on on output than Claude Opus 4.8😱
DeepSeek is 28x cheaper on on output than Claude Opus 4.8😱
- REDDIT · 2026-05-28 · 1331 UPVOTESResearchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days
Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days
- X · 2026-08-15 · 918 UPVOTESGrok 4.6 ranks #1 on RuntimeWire’s Newsroom Reliability v0.2 benchmark with a score of 0.79, beating GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude
Grok 4.6 ranks #1 on RuntimeWire’s Newsroom Reliability v0.2 benchmark with a score of 0.79, beating GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude
- REDDIT · 2026-07-16 · 643 UPVOTESKimi K3 achieves 3rd Place on ArtificalAnalysis, beating out Claude Opus 4.8
Kimi K3 achieves 3rd Place on ArtificalAnalysis, beating out Claude Opus 4.8
- REDDIT · 2026-07-16 · 632 UPVOTESI gave GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.8, and Grok 4.5 the same 100 frontend briefs—here are all 300 results
I gave GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.8, and Grok 4.5 the same 100 frontend briefs—here are all 300 results
- REDDIT · 2026-06-11 · 616 UPVOTESDifferences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
Differences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
- REDDIT · 2026-05-28 · 571 UPVOTESIntroducing Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic
- REDDIT · 2026-05-28 · 499 UPVOTESIntroducing Claude Opus 4.8
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
- REDDIT · 2026-08-01 · 366 UPVOTESNewly released Deepseek V4 Flash Official scores close to Claude Opus 4.8. Price: 0.18$ / 1mil OUTPUT tokens
Newly released Deepseek V4 Flash Official scores close to Claude Opus 4.8. Price: 0.18$ / 1mil OUTPUT tokens
- REDDIT · 2026-06-10 · 362 UPVOTESModel Showdown: Fable vs. Everyone
Model Showdown: Fable vs. Everyone
- REDDIT · 2026-05-28 · 297 UPVOTESIntroducing Claude Opus 4.8
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
- REDDIT · 2026-06-13 · 270 UPVOTESgoogle is way too quiet right now, and Gemini 3.5 Pro has to hit different
google is way too quiet right now, and Gemini 3.5 Pro has to hit different