Claude Opus 4.8
High-stakes reasoning and uncertainty-sensitive work
SWE-Bench Pro leaderlower hallucination exposurestrong OSWorld verified score
Use when silent failure costs more than latency or price.E-GLOBAL-001 / E-GLOBAL-003 / E-GLOBAL-007Current OCG Bench model cards, mapped to task boundaries and global evidence IDs.
High-stakes reasoning and uncertainty-sensitive work
Default high-volume operator
Terminal and input-heavy workflow specialist
Multi-file code requiring cross-state coherence
Legal analysis beyond first-pass triage
Citation-critical document extraction
Financial table reconciliation
Tasks where silent failure is worse than expressed uncertainty
Single-file debugging under ~300 lines
High-volume document summarization
JSON extraction from labeled inputs
Standard SQL repair
Customer support triage at scale
First-pass legal clause review
Terminal-heavy agentic coding
CLI-integrated pipelines
Input-heavy batch tasks where cost is primary constraint