Model profile
Claude Opus 4.8
Evidence coverage
53 of 323 tracked benchmarks are published. 31 are verified and 22 provisional. 8 of 8 categories are measured.
- Published / tracked
- 53 / 323
- Verified
- 31
- Provisional
- 22
- Categories with evidence
- 8 / 8
Evidence by category
- Agentic21 benchmarksMixed evidence
- Coding10 benchmarksMixed evidence
- Reasoning2 benchmarksReported
- Knowledge10 benchmarksMixed evidence
- Math3 benchmarksVerified
- Multilingual1 benchmarkVerified
- Multimodal5 benchmarksMixed evidence
- Inst. Following1 benchmarkReported
Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #5 out of 200 models on the public leaderboard with an overall score of 78.34/100. It also ranks #5 out of 99 on the verified leaderboard. This places it among the top tier of AI models available in 2026, competing directly with the strongest models from leading AI labs.
Claude Opus 4.8 is a proprietary model with a 1M token context window. It uses explicit chain-of-thought reasoning, which typically improves performance on math and complex reasoning tasks at the cost of higher latency and token usage.
BenchLM links it directly to Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) as the earlier related model in that lineage. This profile currently has 53 of 323 tracked benchmarks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated benchmark rows publicly, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.
Its strongest category is Multimodal & Grounded (#1), while its weakest is Agentic (#8). This performance profile makes it particularly strong for screenshots, documents, charts, and grounded multimodal workflows.
Peer position
Exact provisional scores and ranks for the closest listed peers. A score can appear before a model clears the evidence threshold for a rank, so equal scores can have different rank states.
Range 73.51–81.96
- GPT-5.6 SolOpenAICompare#381.96GPT-5.6 Sol is #3 with a score of 81.96.
- Kimi K3Moonshot AICompare#480.96Kimi K3 is #4 with a score of 80.96.
- Claude Opus 4.8Current modelAnthropic#578.34Claude Opus 4.8 is #5 with a score of 78.34.
- Muse Spark 1.1MetaCompare#677.44Muse Spark 1.1 is #6 with a score of 77.44.
- Grok 4.5xAICompare#776.72Grok 4.5 is #7 with a score of 76.72.
- GPT-5.4OpenAICompare#874.24GPT-5.4 is #8 with a score of 74.24.
- GPT-5.5OpenAICompare#973.51GPT-5.5 is #9 with a score of 73.51.
Category percentile
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Relative position among models eligible for each sourced category. A higher percentile means a stronger position within that category's ranked cohort; 100 is highest.
- Multimodal100%Eligible cohort rank #1 of 29Category score 91.5
- Knowledge98%Eligible cohort rank #2 of 52Category score 92.5
- Math83%Eligible cohort rank #2 of 7Category score 66.9
- Coding95%Eligible cohort rank #7 of 122Category score 70.6
- Agentic94%Eligible cohort rank #8 of 119Category score 64.0
Category evidence
Scores and ranks appear only where this model has published benchmark evidence. Categories without displayable source records remain not measured.
| Category | Score | Rank | Percentile | Weight | Benchmarks | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgenticRank #8 of 119Percentile 94thWeight 22%21 benchmarksMixed sources | 64.0 | #8 of 119 | 94th | 22% | 21 benchmarks | Mixed sources |
| CodingRank #7 of 122Percentile 95thWeight 20%10 benchmarksMixed sources | 70.6 | #7 of 122 | 95th | 20% | 10 benchmarks | Mixed sources |
| ReasoningWeight 17%2 benchmarksReported | Score pending | Not ranked | Not available | 17% | 2 benchmarks | Reported |
| KnowledgeRank #2 of 52Percentile 98thWeight 12%10 benchmarksMixed sources | 92.5 | #2 of 52 | 98th | 12% | 10 benchmarks | Mixed sources |
| MathRank #2 of 7Percentile 83rdWeight 5%3 benchmarksVerified | 66.9 | #2 of 7 | 83rd | 5% | 3 benchmarks | Verified |
| MultilingualWeight 7%1 benchmarkVerified | Score pending | Not ranked | Not available | 7% | 1 benchmark | Verified |
| MultimodalRank #1 of 29Percentile 100thWeight 12%5 benchmarksMixed sources | 91.5 | #1 of 29 | 100th | 12% | 5 benchmarks | Mixed sources |
| Inst. FollowingWeight 5%1 benchmarkReported | Score pending | Not ranked | Not available | 5% | 1 benchmark | Reported |
Chatbot Arena performance
Scroll horizontally to inspect confidence intervals and vote counts.
| View | Elo | Confidence interval | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text Overall | 1485 | ±5.1 | 30,024 |
| Coding | 1535 | ±7.8 | 8,366 |
| Math | 1496 | ±15.5 | 1,471 |
| Instruction Following | 1494 | ±7.3 | 10,141 |
| Creative Writing | 1464 | ±9.3 | 5,301 |
| Multi-turn | 1506 | ±9.1 | 5,367 |
| Hard Prompts | 1514 | ±6.2 | 19,745 |
| Hard Prompts (English) | 1514 | ±7.4 | 9,594 |
| Longer Query | 1506 | ±7.0 | 13,426 |
Benchmark Details
Rows below have a displayable published verification record. Each source link and provenance note remains in the page HTML while its category is closed. Source-unverified manual rows and generated rows stay hidden.
Agentic21 benchmarks
Gert Labs Composite Game Benchmark
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index
τ²-Bench Tool-Agent-User Evaluation
GDPval-AA normalized
Artificial Analysis Briefcase
Artificial Analysis AutomationBench
Artificial Analysis EnterpriseOps-Gym
Artificial Analysis Harvey LAB-AA
Artificial Analysis Tau3-Banking
Coding10 benchmarks
Software Engineering Benchmark Verified
SWE-bench Multimodal
Artificial Analysis Coding Index
Artificial Analysis SciCode
Reasoning2 benchmarks
Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning
Critical Physics Tasks
Knowledge10 benchmarks
Humanity's Last Exam
Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A
GPQA Diamond
Humanity's Last Exam without tools
Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond
Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam
Artificial Analysis Omniscience Index
Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy
Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate
Math3 benchmarks
FrontierMath v2 Tiers 1-3
United States of America Mathematical Olympiad 2026
FrontierMath v2 Tier 4
Multilingual1 benchmark
Multimodal5 benchmarks
CharXiv Reasoning
CharXiv Reasoning without tools
Design Arena Website Elo
Inst. Following1 benchmark
Artificial Analysis IFBench
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Claude Opus 4.8 perform overall in AI benchmarks?
Claude Opus 4.8 currently ranks #5 out of 200 models on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard with an overall score of 78.34. It also ranks #5 out of 99 on the verified leaderboard. It is created by Anthropic. Its published context window is 1M.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for knowledge and understanding?
Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #2 out of 52 models in knowledge and understanding benchmarks with an average score of 92.5. It is among the top performers in this category.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for coding and programming?
Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #7 out of 122 models in coding and programming benchmarks with an average score of 70.6. It is among the top performers in this category.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for mathematics?
Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #2 out of 7 models in mathematics benchmarks with an average score of 66.9. It is among the top performers in this category.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for reasoning and logic?
Claude Opus 4.8 has visible benchmark coverage in reasoning and logic, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for agentic tool use and computer tasks?
Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #8 out of 119 models in agentic tool use and computer tasks benchmarks with an average score of 64. It is among the top performers in this category.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for multimodal and grounded tasks?
Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #1 out of 29 models in multimodal and grounded tasks benchmarks with an average score of 91.5. It is among the top performers in this category.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for instruction following?
Claude Opus 4.8 has visible benchmark coverage in instruction following, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for multilingual tasks?
Claude Opus 4.8 has visible benchmark coverage in multilingual tasks, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.
Does Claude Opus 4.8 have full benchmark coverage on BenchLM?
Not yet. Claude Opus 4.8 currently has 53 published benchmark scores out of the 323 benchmarks BenchLM tracks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated public benchmark rows, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.
What is the context window size of Claude Opus 4.8?
Claude Opus 4.8 has a published context window of 1M, which determines how much text it can process in a single interaction.
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