Anthropic's most capable Opus yet, built for long-horizon autonomous agents and frontier coding.
Instruction-following variant of GPT-3.5 for completion-style tasks.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Both Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct has a lower blended cost. Claude Opus 4.8: $5.00 input / $25.00 output. GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct: $1.50 input / $2.00 output.
Claude Opus 4.8 has a larger context window: Claude Opus 4.8 supports 1M tokens vs GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct at 4K tokens.
Claude Opus 4.8 supports vision/image input, but GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct does not.
Key differences: GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct is significantly cheaper; only Claude Opus 4.8 supports vision input; only Claude Opus 4.8 offers extended reasoning mode. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.