Claude Opus 4.8 · vercel

Opus 4.8 is a focused upgrade to Opus 4.7 and is Anthropic's best generally available model for coding, agentic tasks, and enterprise workflows. It builds on the strengths of previous Opus models with stronger performance on complex, multi-step coding tasks. Anthropic recommends using it on long-horizon coding and agentic tasks. It is also stronger on professional work, including document drafting, data analysis, and presentations.

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Input, $/1M $5.00

Output, $/1M $25.00

Cache read $0.50

Cache write $6.25

Context 1 000 000

Max output 128 000

Accepts images, pdf, text

Last checked 04.11.2026 12:00:14 UTC

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API

OpenAI-compatible API: the official OpenAI SDKs work with this base URL. Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your key from the provider.

API base URL	`https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1`
Endpoint	`https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/chat/completions`
Model id	`anthropic/claude-opus-4.8`

curl

curl https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "anthropic/claude-opus-4.8", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}], "max_tokens": 256}'

Python

import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/chat/completions",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={
      "model": "anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
      "messages": [
        {
          "role": "user",
          "content": "Hello!"
        }
      ],
      "max_tokens": 256
    },
)
print(r.json())

JavaScript

const r = await fetch("https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/chat/completions", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello!"
      }
    ],
    "max_tokens": 256
  }),
});
console.log(await r.json());

Request (JSON)

{
  "model": "anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello!"
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 256
}

Response (JSON)

{
  "id": "chatcmpl-...",
  "object": "chat.completion",
  "model": "anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
  "choices": [
    {
      "index": 0,
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "Hi! How can I help?"
      },
      "finish_reason": "stop"
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "prompt_tokens": 9,
    "completion_tokens": 12,
    "total_tokens": 21
  }
}

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Source: AI Rate Card, https://airatecard.com/en/c/offer%3Avercel%7Canthropic/claude-opus-4.8, prices checked 2026-11-04; seller's page: https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/claude-opus-4.8

Technical details

ID: offer:vercel|anthropic/claude-opus-4.8