Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Mai Image 2.6 Flash from Microsoft 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
Mai Image 2.6 FlashClaude 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
MAI-Image-2.6 Flash is Microsoft’s low-latency version of the latest image model MAI-Image-2.6. It supports image generation in multiple aspect ratios and image-guided editing.
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Mai Image 2.6 Flash: $1.75/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Mai Image 2.6 Flash accepts 32,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 4,096 tokens on Mai Image 2.6 Flash.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Mai Image 2.6 Flash accepts text and image input.
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