Anthropic Models
Explore all 8 models from Anthropic with detailed pricing, pros & cons, and developer recommendations.
Quick Recommendations
Claude Opus 4.8
FlagshipFrontier coding, AI agents
When to use: When you need the absolute latest Anthropic intelligence for complex coding and agent workflows.
Upgrade Highlights
- ◆Latest Anthropic flagship: knowledge cutoff 2025-06 (2 months newer than 4.7)
- ◆Fast mode available for premium speed — 2x faster responses
- ◆1M context window (up from 200K in Claude 4 Opus)
- ◆Same $5/$25 pricing as Opus 4.7 — more capability at same cost
- ◆Improved agentic coding: better multi-step tool orchestration
Pros
- Latest Anthropic flagship with 1M context
- Fast mode available for premium speed
- Best-in-class agentic coding
Cons
- Expensive output at $25/M tokens
- No batch API
- No fine-tuning
Performance
Multimodal
Benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.7
FlagshipAgentic coding, complex analysis
When to use: Top choice for long-horizon coding agents and complex analytical workloads.
Upgrade Highlights
- ◆SWE-Bench Pro: 64.3% — leads all models on real-world coding
- ◆1M context window — 5x increase over Claude 4 Opus's 200K
- ◆Same $5/$25 pricing as Opus 4.6 with better performance
- ◆Knowledge cutoff: 2025-04 — 1 month newer than Claude 4
- ◆Best-in-class for long-horizon multi-step coding agents
Pros
- 1M context window
- 64.3% on SWE-Bench Pro (leads competition)
- Same price as Opus 4.6 with better performance
Cons
- Still expensive at $5/$25
- No batch API
- No fine-tuning
Performance
Multimodal
Benchmarks
Agents Using This Model
1Claude Haiku 4.5
LiteFast, cost-efficient AI tasks
When to use: Best Anthropic value for production chatbots, coding assistants, and agent tasks.
Upgrade Highlights
- ◆Matches Sonnet 4 coding performance at 1/3 the price
- ◆Vision support at lite tier — first Haiku with multimodal capability
- ◆200K context window (same as Claude 4 Opus/Sonnet)
- ◆Knowledge cutoff: 2025-02 — newest at the Haiku tier
- ◆Price: $1/$5 — 5x more than 3.5 Haiku but 3x quality improvement
Pros
- Matches Sonnet 4 performance on coding tasks
- Vision support at lite tier
- 200K context window
Cons
- 5x more expensive than 3.5 Haiku
- 8K max output is limiting
- No fine-tuning
Performance
Multimodal
Benchmarks
Claude 4 Opus
FlagshipAgentic coding, deep analysis
When to use: When you need the absolute best for complex agentic coding and deep analytical work.
Upgrade Highlights
- ◆SWE-bench Verified: 72.7% — highest agentic coding score at launch
- ◆200K context with 32K max output — 4x Claude 3.5 Sonnet's 8K output
- ◆Batch API available: $7.50/$37.50 — 50% savings for async workloads
- ◆Knowledge cutoff: 2025-03 — 6 months newer than 3.5 Sonnet
- ◆Premium pricing ($15/$75) reflects highest intelligence tier
Pros
- Best agentic coding model available
- Superior deep analysis
- Latest knowledge cutoff (2025-03)
Cons
- Most expensive model in market ($15/$75)
- No fine-tuning
- Slower than Sonnet
Performance
Multimodal
Benchmarks
Claude 4 Sonnet
FlagshipCoding, writing, analysis
When to use: Best balance of quality and cost for writing, coding, and analysis production apps.
Upgrade Highlights
- ◆SWE-bench: 63.8% — competitive with flagships at 1/5 the price
- ◆Batch API: $1.50/$7.50 — 50% savings for non-real-time workloads
- ◆200K context + 16K output — 2x output of Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- ◆Top-tier writing quality — best for content generation and editing
- ◆Price $3/$15 — replaced Claude 3.5 Sonnet as the default choice
Pros
- Top-tier writing quality
- 5x cheaper than Opus
- Excellent coding with 200K context
Cons
- Lower max output than Opus
- No fine-tuning
- Slower than GPT-4o mini
Performance
Multimodal
Benchmarks
Agents Using This Model
41Claude 3.5 Haiku
LiteFast, affordable tasks
When to use: For high-throughput text tasks where you want Anthropic quality on a budget.
Upgrade Highlights
- ◆First budget Anthropic model with 200K context (was 100K in Claude 3 Haiku)
- ◆Prompt caching: $0.08/M — 90% savings for repeated system prompts
- ◆Batch API: $0.40/$2 — 50% savings for async processing
- ◆Claude's nuanced writing style at 1/4 the price of Sonnet
- ◆No vision — text-only; upgrade to Haiku 4.5 for multimodal
Pros
- 200K context at budget price
- Claude's nuanced style at low cost
- Good prompt caching savings
Cons
- No vision support
- No fine-tuning
- 8K max output is limiting
Performance
Multimodal
Benchmarks
Claude Fable 5
FlagshipFrontier coding, long-horizon agentic work
When to use: When you need the most capable publicly available model for frontier coding, complex agentic work, and long-horizon tasks.
Upgrade Highlights
- ◆SWE-bench Verified: 95.0% — new SOTA (vs Opus 4.8: 88.6%, GPT-5.5: 88.7%)
- ◆SWE-bench Pro: 80.3% (+11pp vs Opus 4.8, +22pp vs GPT-5.5)
- ◆Terminal-Bench 2.1: 88.0% — best agentic coding score
- ◆Humanity's Last Exam: 59.0% without tools
- ◆Same underlying model as Claude Mythos 5 — safeguards are the only difference
Pros
- Mythos-class: SWE-bench Verified 95.0% — highest ever
- SWE-bench Pro 80.3% — 11pp ahead of Opus 4.8
- 1M context window for long-horizon work
- State-of-the-art vision (rebuilds apps from screenshots)
Cons
- 2x Opus pricing at $10/$50 per M tokens
- Sensitive domains (cyber, bio/chem) silently routed to Opus 4.8
- 30-day data retention required for Mythos-class
- No fine-tuning support
Performance
Multimodal
Benchmarks
Claude Mythos 5
FlagshipFrontier coding, agentic work with fewer restrictions
When to use: When you need Mythos-class performance with fewer content restrictions for research or specialized applications.
Upgrade Highlights
- ◆Same underlying model as Claude Fable 5
- ◆SWE-bench Verified: 95.0%
- ◆SWE-bench Pro: 80.3%
- ◆Terminal-Bench 2.1: 88.0%
- ◆Fewer safeguard restrictions compared to Fable 5
Pros
- Same Mythos-class performance as Fable 5
- SWE-bench Verified 95.0%
- Fewer content restrictions than Fable 5
- 1M context window for long-horizon work
Cons
- $10/$50 per M tokens — premium pricing
- 30-day data retention required
- No fine-tuning support
- Available only to select customers initially
Performance
Multimodal
Benchmarks
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Model | Tier | Input | Output | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Flagship | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Flagship | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Lite | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K |
| Claude 4 Opus | Flagship | $15.00 | $75.00 | 200K |
| Claude 4 Sonnet | Flagship | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200K |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Lite | $0.800 | $4.00 | 200K |
| Claude Fable 5 | Flagship | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| Claude Mythos 5 | Flagship | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |