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Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) vs Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)
no bench·no signal
QUIET
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
no bench·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)
$30.00/M
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
$90.00/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) leads by +2.8
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)
47.2
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
44.4
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) leads by +0.7
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)
74.3
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
73.6
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) leads by +2.2
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)
55.7
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
53.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8 (Fast)Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
47.244.4
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
74.373.6
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
55.753.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.8 (Fast)$10.00$50.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$200.00
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.7 (Fast)$30.00$150.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$600.00