Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking 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 4.8Claude Sonnet 4.5 ThinkingClaude 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
Claude Sonnet 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, the claude-sonnet-4-5-think model is provided with reasoning mode pre-enabled and a default 64k-token context window, allowing it to be called directly via the OpenAI unified API. Claude Sonnet 4.5 Think is a reasoning-focused variant of Claude Sonnet 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 Sonnet 4.5 model, making it well suited for complex problem decomposition, multi-step planning, and logic-intensive analysis.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking: $16.5/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking: 1520 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
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.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking accepts 200,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 64,000 tokens on Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking at 52.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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