Anthropic's most capable Opus yet, built for long-horizon autonomous agents and frontier coding.
Thinking Machines Lab's open-weight multimodal model with 41B active parameters out of 975B total.
No shared agent demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Both Claude Opus 4.8 and Inkling 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.
Inkling has a lower blended cost. Claude Opus 4.8: $5.00 input / $25.00 output. Inkling: $1.00 input / $4.05 output.
Claude Opus 4.8 has a larger context window: Claude Opus 4.8 supports 1M tokens vs Inkling at 524K tokens.
Yes, both Claude Opus 4.8 and Inkling support vision/image input.
Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on SWE-bench Verified: Claude Opus 4.8 resolves 89% vs Inkling at 78%.
Key differences: Inkling is significantly cheaper. 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 Inkling for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.