Models

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Llama 4 Scout

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Llama 4 Scout from Llama on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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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
Llama logo
Llama 4 Scout
Llama · text, image → text

Llama 4 Scout is a highly efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Meta, activating 17B out of 109B total parameters per inference. It natively supports multimodal input (text and image) and multilingual output (text and code) across 12 languages. Designed for assistant-style interaction and visual reasoning, Scout features a massive 10-million-token context window. It is instruction-tuned for tasks like multilingual chat and image understanding and is released under the Llama 4 Community License for local or commercial deployment.

Input$0.2 /M
Output$0.2 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Claude Opus 4.8
Llama 4 Scout
Input /M
$5
$0.2
Output /M
$25
$0.2
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
1,000,000
131,072
Max output
128,000
131,000
Time to First Token
1.1 s
0.3 s
Throughput
82.6 tok/s
2637.0 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
May 28, 2026
April 5, 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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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

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

Text
claude-opus-4-8llama-4-scout
1260134014201500
Overall
13231473
Coding
13621527
Math
13091474
Hard prompts
13301503
Instruction following
13001477
Multi-turn
13201495
Creative writing
12901465
Longer query
13271499
Chinese
13151523
English
13411480
Vision
claude-opus-4-8llama-4-scout
11001160122012801340
Overall
11281279
OCR
11291294
Diagram
11471309
Homework
11491320

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.

Llama 4 Scout
$15.00 /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, Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout: $0.2/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; Llama 4 Scout: 1362 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Llama 4 Scout: 0.3s 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 Llama 4 Scout accepts 131,072 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 131,000 tokens on Llama 4 Scout.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Llama 4 Scout at 2637.0 tok/s and Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 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; Llama 4 Scout accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Llama 4 Scout 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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