Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 5.5
14 SHARED BENCHMARKSAcross 14 shared benchmarks, Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on 2 and Claude Opus 5.5 on 12. The widest gap is Terminal-Bench 4.0, where Claude Opus 5.5 scores 66.4 against 23.6. Claude Opus 5.5 is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($4.00 against $5.00 per million input tokens).
At a glance
Release dates: Artificial Analysis for Claude Opus 4.8; the vendor's own announcement for Claude Opus 5.5. Prices: Anthropic's own price page for Claude Opus 4.8; Artificial Analysis for Claude Opus 5.5. ◆ = independently verified score.
Where each leadsby capability area · benchmark wins
Biggest gaps
Claude Opus 4.8 pulls furthest ahead on
No ratified-area lead of 3 points or more.
Claude Opus 5.5 pulls furthest ahead on
- Humanity's Last Exam67.7 vs 48.7
- SWE-bench Pro89.9 vs 69.2
- SWE-bench Multilingual93.9 vs 84.4
Every shared benchmark14 · grouped by area
Reasoning 1
Coding 2
Other shared benchmarks 11
Each score is the one the model's own page shows — the most authoritative tracked result for that benchmark, on the benchmark's standard methodology (source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics; ◆ an independently verified score. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing. Quoted rates are the price-setter row we currently track for each model — its direct or vendor-official listing where one exists (anthropic-official, direct), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.