Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Haiku 4.5
How Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) and Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) compare on price, context window and best-fit use case.
In short: Claude Opus 4.8 is best for Complex coding agents, long-horizon tasks, and workloads needing top reliability and reasoning, while Claude Haiku 4.5 suits Real-time chat, routing, classification, and high-throughput pipelines on a budget. On price it's $5.00 vs $1.00 per 1M input tokens; on context, 1M tokens vs 200K tokens.
| Spec | Claude Opus 4.8 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 200K tokens |
| Input price /1M | $5.00 | $1.00 |
| Output price /1M | $25.00 | $5.00 |
| Modalities | text, image | text, image |
| Best for | Complex coding agents, long-horizon tasks, and workloads needing top reliability and reasoning. | Real-time chat, routing, classification, and high-throughput pipelines on a budget. |
Claude Opus 4.8
- Best-in-class coding and agentic tasks
- Adaptive reasoning with effort controls
- 1M context at flat rate
- Strong instruction following and safety
Claude Haiku 4.5
- Low latency
- Cheapest Claude tier
- Good reasoning for its size
- Strong tool use