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Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic Proprietary Released May 2026
85.5
Vibe Coding Index · #3 of 21
✓ Verified data — every figure is cited. See sources.
Quality #3/21
85.5
VCI
Price #11/12
$10
$/M blended
Speed #11/12
60
tok/s
Latency #7/12
23.13s
to first token

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Real GitHub issues fixed end-to-end
89
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Terminal-Bench
Agentic tasks in a real shell
79
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LiveCodeBench
Fresh competitive-programming problems
88
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Where Claude Opus 4.8 sits

Its dot is ringed on the cost×quality and speed×quality frontiers.

↖ Best value Premium ↗ ↙ Budget Poor value ↘ 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 $0.32 $1 $3.16 $10 $31.62 BLENDED COST — $ / 1M TOKENS (LOG) VIBE CODING INDEX Claude Fable 5 Grok 4.5 Claude Opus 4.8 MiniMax M3
Efficient frontier Alibaba Anthropic DeepSeek Google MiniMax Moonshot AI OpenAI xAI Hover, tap or focus a point · dashed lines = medians 10 model(s) hidden — data not yet verified
↖ Smart but slow Fast & smart ↗ ↙ Laggards Fast but shallow ↘ 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 0 48 96 144 192 240 OUTPUT SPEED — TOKENS / SECOND VIBE CODING INDEX Claude Fable 5 Grok 4.5 Claude Opus 4.8 MiniMax M3 Qwen3.7 Max
Efficient frontier Alibaba Anthropic DeepSeek Google MiniMax Moonshot AI OpenAI xAI Hover, tap or focus a point · dashed lines = medians 10 model(s) hidden — data not yet verified
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