Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and GPT 5 Pro from OpenAI 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
GPT 5 ProClaude 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
GPT-5 pro uses more compute to think harder and provide consistently better answers. GPT-5 pro is available in the Responses API only to enable support for multi-turn model interactions before responding to API requests, and other advanced API features in the future. Since GPT-5 pro is designed to tackle tough problems, some requests may take several minutes to finish. To avoid timeouts, try using background mode. As our most advanced reasoning model, GPT-5 pro defaults to (and only supports) reasoning.effort: high. GPT-5 pro does not support code interpreter.
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Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M output tokens; GPT 5 Pro: $120/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
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 GPT 5 Pro accepts 400,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 272,000 tokens on GPT 5 Pro.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and GPT 5 Pro at 8.6 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; GPT 5 Pro accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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