Models

Claude Opus 4.8 vs O3

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and O3 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.

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.8OpenAIO3
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
OpenAI logo
O3
OpenAI · text, image, pdf → text

OpenAI o3 is a powerful model across multiple domains, setting a new standard for coding, math, science, and visual reasoning tasks.

Input$2 /M
Output$8 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Claude Opus 4.8
O3
Input /M
$5
$2
Output /M
$25
$8
Cache read /M
$0.5
$0.5
Context length
1,000,000
200,000
Max output
128,000
100,000
Time to First Token
1.1 s
6.5 s
Throughput
82.6 tok/s
40.3 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
textimagepdf
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
May 28, 2026
April 16, 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-4-8o3
1360142014801540
Overall
14311473
Coding
14591527
Math
14471474
Hard prompts
14401503
Instruction following
14021477
Multi-turn
14181495
Creative writing
13831465
Longer query
14081499
Chinese
14641523
English
14381480
Vision
claude-opus-4-8o3
1200124012801320
Overall
12171279
OCR
12221294
Diagram
12301309
Homework
12471320

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.

O3
$240 /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, O3?

O3: $8/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; O3: 1459 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Claude Opus 4.8: 1.1s 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 O3 accepts 200,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 100,000 tokens on O3.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and O3 at 40.3 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; O3 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and O3 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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