Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and GPT 5.2 High 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 5.2 HighClaude 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-5.2 supports configurable reasoning effort only through the /responses endpoint. To make higher-intensity reasoning available directly via the /chat interface, GPT-5.2-High is provided as a reasoning-enhanced variant of GPT-5.2 with reasoning_effort preset to high. It is designed for tasks that require deeper analysis, stronger result consistency, and greater controllability. By applying more aggressive reasoning strategies and more effective use of extended context, the model delivers clearer and more reliable responses, making it well suited for complex agent workflows, long-chain decision-making, and reliability-critical advanced applications.
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GPT 5.2 High: $14/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; GPT 5.2 High: 1489 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GPT 5.2 High: 0.8s 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 5.2 High accepts 400,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 128,000 tokens on GPT 5.2 High.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and GPT 5.2 High at 36.7 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 5.2 High accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, function calling, web search, structured outputs and tool calling.
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