Claude Opus 4.8 Review: Better At What’s It Good At, Worse At What It’s Not - Decrypt

What happened

Six weeks after Opus 4.7, Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8. The benchmarks are up, the safety scores are up, and the price hasn't budged from $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output. So we ran it through the same battery of tests we throw at every frontier.