# Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

Provider: anthropic  
Category: llm  
Model ID: `anthropic/claude-opus-4.8:batch`

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model in the Opus family. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and a 1M-token...

## Specs

- Context length: 1000000 tokens
- Max output: 128000 tokens
- Modalities: text, image, file
- Released: 2026-05-27

## Pricing

- Input: $2.50 per million tokens
- Output: $12.50 per million tokens

## Verdict

Claude Opus 4.8 batch is Anthropic's flagship reasoning model optimized for asynchronous workloads where you can wait 12-24 hours for results. It delivers Opus-tier intelligence at half the standard API cost ($2.50/$12.50 per Mtok vs $5/$25). Reach for this when you're processing large document sets, running evals overnight, or batch-generating training data where latency doesn't matter. If you need answers in seconds, use the real-time version instead.

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Last verified: 2026-09-04T02:00:56.012Z  
Canonical URL: https://switchy.build/directory/models/claude-opus-4-8-batch