Models

Claude Opus 4.8 vs grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning 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.

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.8Grokgrok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
Anthropic logo
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

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

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
Grok logo
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
Grok · text, image → text

Grok 4.1 is a new conversational model with significant improvements in real-world usability, delivering exceptional performance in creative, emotional, and collaborative interactions. It is more perceptive to nuanced user intent, more engaging to converse with, and more coherent in personality, while fully preserving its core intelligence and reliability. Built on large-scale reinforcement learning infrastructure, the model is optimized for style, personality, helpfulness, and alignment, and leverages frontier agentic reasoning models as reward evaluators to autonomously assess and iterate on responses at scale, significantly enhancing overall interaction quality.

Input$0.2 /M
Output$0.5 /M
Cache read$0.05 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 4.8
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
Input /M
$5
$0.2
Output /M
$25
$0.5
Cache read /M
$0.5
$0.05
Context length
1,000,000
1,000,000
Max output
128,000
0
Time to First Token
1.1 s
0.7 s
Throughput
82.6 tok/s
72.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
May 28, 2026
November 19, 2025

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
claude-opus-4-8grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
14001440148015201560
Overall
14591473
Coding
14931527
Math
14271474
Hard prompts
14741503
Instruction following
14311477
Multi-turn
14611495
Creative writing
14311465
Longer query
14501499
Chinese
14941523
English
14711480

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
$19.50 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning?

grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning: $0.5/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 4.8: 1527; grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning: 1493 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning: 0.7s 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 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning accepts 1,000,000 input tokens.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning at 72.1 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 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning 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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