Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Grok 2 Vision 1212 from Grok 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
Grok 2 Vision 1212Claude 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
grok-2-vision-1212 is the latest vision model in the Grok family, delivering outstanding performance on vision-based tasks and achieving state-of-the-art results in visual mathematical reasoning and document-based question answering. It supports a wide range of visual inputs, including documents, charts, screenshots, and real-world images, making it well-suited for advanced visual understanding and reasoning use cases. The price of calling this model in AIhubMix is 10% lower than on the official website.
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Grok 2 Vision 1212: $9/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; Grok 2 Vision 1212: 1359 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Grok 2 Vision 1212 accepts text and image input.
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