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# Claude Opus 4.8
## Query Intents
- Understand pricing, provider availability, context window, and capabilities for Claude Opus 4.8.
- Compare Claude Opus 4.8 against other models available through PipeLLM.
- Find the canonical model identifier to use in SDK or API requests.
## Overview
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s frontier Opus model for complex reasoning, software engineering, multimodal analysis, and long-running agent workflows. It supports extended context, high-output tasks, tool use, and cache-aware workflows, making it suitable for demanding research, coding, and autonomous execution scenarios.
## Model Metadata
- Display name: Claude Opus 4.8
- Model ID: claude-opus-4-8
- Provider family: Anthropic
- Release date: 2026-05-27T18:04:51.000Z
- Context window: 1000K
- Max output: 128K
- Input modalities: text, image, file
- Output modalities: text
- Tool use support: Yes
- Computer use support: No
- Cache control support: Yes
## API Integration
Supported call formats through PipeLLM converter routes:
- [OpenAI](https://docs.pipellm.ai/converter/openai-format): `/openai/v1/chat/completions`
- [Responses](https://docs.pipellm.ai/converter/responses-format): `/responses/v1/responses`
- [Anthropic](https://docs.pipellm.ai/converter/anthropic-format): `/anthropic/v1/messages`
- [Gemini](https://docs.pipellm.ai/converter/gemini-format): `/gemini/v1beta/models/{model}:generateContent`

Responses conversion is stateless: use store=false and replay complete output items, including reasoning.encrypted_content, for tool continuations. See the Responses documentation for supported fields and Gemini 3 signature limitations.
## Official Pricing (per 1M tokens)
| Metric | <=200K Context | >200K Context |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input Price | $5 | — |
| Output Price | $25 | — |
| Cache Read | $0.5 | — |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | — |
| Image Input | $0 | — |
| Image Output | $0 | — |

## Provider Availability
| Provider | Region | Context Window | Max Output | Input Price | Output Price | Cache Read | Cache Write |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AWS | — | 1000K | 128K | $5 | $25 | $0.5 | $6.25 |
| GCP Vertex | — | 1000K | 128K | $5 | $25 | $0.5 | $6.25 |
| Vertex AI | — | 1000K | 128K | $5 | $25 | $0.5 | $6.25 |

## Documentation
Send an authenticated POST request to https://api.pipellm.ai/v1/messages with model set to claude-opus-4-8.