Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.
Available today at the same price.
Fast mode is available for Opus 4.8. It's the same model at roughly 2.5x the speed, and we've made it three times cheaper than before.
Turn it on with /fast in Claude Code. On the API, contact your account manager to request access or join the waitlist: claude.com/fast-mode
In Claude Code, Opus 4.8 makes calls like an experienced engineer without needing constant check-ins.
It stays on track across long-running sessions and follows work through in your repo, so you can hand off a feature or a bug sweep while you focus on what's next.
Also new in Claude Code: dynamic workflows (research preview).
For the hardest tasks, Claude makes a plan, runs hundreds of parallel subagents, and verifies its work before reporting back. Think a migration touching hundreds of files.
New in Claude Design: it stays on brand with your design system across projects, lets you edit directly on the canvas, syncs with Claude Code, and connects to more of the tools you already use.
Import your design system from a repo, design files, or your codebase. Claude builds with your real components and checks its own output against your design system before you see it.
The redesigned editor is steadier for daily work. New layout controls let you drag, resize, and align elements directly on the canvas.
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.
Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.
Fable 5 is state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks, with exceptional performance in software engineering, knowledge work, scientific research, and vision.
The longer and more complex the task, the larger Fable 5’s lead over our other models.
Releasing a model this capable comes with risks. Without safeguards, Fable 5’s capabilities in areas like cybersecurity could be misused to cause serious damage.
Queries on a narrow range of topics will instead receive a response from our next-most-capable model, Opus 4.8.
One list of all your sessions, available today as a research preview.
Run claude agents to start dispatching multiple sessions at once. Each one keeps running without taking up a terminal tab.
See what's running, what's waiting on you, and what's done at a glance. Reply inline to unblock, or jump in and out of any session without losing your place.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.
It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.
You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.
Opus 4.7 also has substantially better vision. It can see images at more than three times the resolution and produces higher-quality interfaces, slides, and docs as a result.
On the API, a new xhigh effort level between high and max gives you finer control over reasoning and latency on hard problems. Task budgets (beta) help Claude prioritize work and manage costs across longer runs.