Claude Opus 4.5 does not enable reasoning mode by default. To access its deep reasoning capabilities, users would typically need to call the native Claude API. To make this capability available through an OpenAI-compatible interface, we provide the claude-opus-4-5-think model, which has reasoning mode pre-enabled and a default 32k-token context window, allowing it to be called directly via the OpenAI unified API. Claude Opus 4.5 Think is a reasoning-focused variant of Claude Opus 4.5 designed for advanced tasks that require rigorous reasoning, complex decision-making, and long-chain analysis. Aside from its enhanced reasoning mechanism, all other capabilities remain consistent with the standard Claude Opus 4.5 model, making it well suited for complex engineering problem decomposition, multi-stage planning, and logic-intensive analysis.
Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking vs Claude Opus 4.8
Compare Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking from Anthropic and Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking, Claude Opus 4.8?
Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking: $25/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
How do their coding arena scores compare?
Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking: 1530; Claude Opus 4.8: 1527 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Which responds faster?
Claude Opus 4.8: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
How large is each context window?
Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking accepts 200,000 and Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking and 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking at 49.8 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
Can I call Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking and Claude Opus 4.8 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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