Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Claude Opus 4.8 · Batch tier (Batch)
Asynchronous batch tier: discounted offline batch requests with high throughput and relaxed latency — ideal for large-scale non-real-time workloads.
Best for: Large-scale offline inference, cost-sensitive batch jobs, backfills
This page covers the Claude Opus 4.8 Batch tier, sharing the underlying model capability with its real-time standard tier; the main difference is in billing mode and invocation method. See the Claude Opus 4.8 standard real-time tier.
Provider：Anthropic
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...
Key specs
- Context：1M
- Max output：128K
- Tokenizer：Claude
- Released：2026-05-27
Token pricing
- Input price：$2.50 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$12.50 / 1M tokens
- Cache read：$0.250 / 1M tokens
- Cache write：$3.13 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$5.00 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image, File
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.100/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.075/call）
- Content Moderation：Auto-detect violations, hate speech, NSFW content; custom rule sets and score thresholds.
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Long context (>=1M tokens): well-suited for long-doc QA, code-base analysis, multi-turn agents.
- Long max output (>=30K tokens): strong fit for deep report / essay / document-drafting workflows.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
- File / PDF input support: fit for document parsing, contract review, RAG over private data.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)? Input price $2.50 / 1M tokens, output price $12.50 / 1M tokens, blended about $5.00 / 1M tokens. Refer to Anthropic’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) support? Context window is 1M, max output about 128K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation, Content Moderation. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) support? Supports Text, Image, File modality.
- Is Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) a free model? Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)? Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) is offered by Anthropic.
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