Manual curation
These picks prioritize launch-day view count, creator credibility, and practical signal. Videos are embedded directly on the page with lazy-loaded YouTube iframes.
Watch curated videosView counts were checked during curation and will naturally drift as new Opus 4.8 videos gain traction.
Official launch demo for the long-running Claude Code workflow, useful as the fastest source-backed overview before watching deeper commentary.
Practical walkthrough with the strongest view count among third-party tutorials, focused on what to try first instead of just reading release notes.
High-reach analysis that puts the honesty and capability claims into context, good for quickly understanding the broader model positioning.
Concise first-impressions video with strong early traction, useful for seeing how the launch lands with power users and builders.
Long-form live coding session for viewers who want to judge Opus 4.8 through sustained, messy, real workflow footage rather than a short edit.
A more editorial, quality-weighted pick that balances the higher-view creator videos with a thoughtful product and workflow perspective.
Prefer reading? These written walkthroughs cover the same ground as the videos for developers.
A developer's playbook: where Opus 4.8 earns its cost across review, debugging, refactoring, tests and migrations — with workflows and prompts.
Read full articleSix copy-ready prompts for coding, agents and research, plus the anatomy of a prompt that gets the most out of Opus 4.8.
Read full articleA transparent, no-fabrication test plan: the tasks, the scoring rubric and the method we'll use to evaluate Opus 4.8 on real code. Results to follow.
Read full articleAs of May 28, 2026, Anthropic lists Claude Opus 4.8 as the newest Opus release. The API model ID is claude-opus-4-8.
Anthropic lists regular usage at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, the same price as Opus 4.7. Fast mode is listed separately at $10 / $50 per million tokens.
You should test it if your workflow depends on complex coding, multi-step agents, code review, refactoring, or professional reasoning where reliability matters more than raw speed.
No. Latest Opus is an independent, unofficial guide and is not affiliated with Anthropic. Always verify production decisions against official Anthropic documentation.
Anthropic says Opus 4.8 is available through the Claude API, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and major cloud provider options for eligible plans.