# Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Opus 4.8 > Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Opus 4.8 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks. - Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-7-vs-claude-opus-4-8 - Last updated: October 10, 2026 - Shared sourced benchmarks: 12 - HTML indexing: indexable - Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8 ## Quick Verdict Claude Opus 4.8 leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests. ## Summary - Claude Opus 4.8 has the higher overall point estimate 69.12 to 64.23. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. - The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 53.8 for Claude Opus 4.7 and 61.6 for Claude Opus 4.8. - The biggest single benchmark swing is FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) in Mathematics, with scores of 22.917% and 31.250%. ## Model Snapshot | Property | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | |----------|----------|----------| | Creator | Anthropic | Anthropic | | Type | Proprietary | Proprietary | | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning | | Context | 1M | 1M | | Overall Score | 64.23 | 69.12 | | Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 40 | | Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | ## Category Breakdown ### Agentic - Winner: Claude Opus 4.8 - Claude Opus 4.7 public-lane score: 53.8 (Supported · #40/123) - Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 61.6 (Supported · #20/123) | Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | Gert Labs | 65.59% | 72.97% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | ResearchClawBench | 20.7% | 21.1% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | OSWorld 2.0 | 13.9% | 20.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 68.5% | 71.9% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | ApprenticeBench | 7% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | Terminal-Bench 3.0 | Coming soon | 21.1% | Coming soon | | Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 74.6% | Coming soon | | BrowseComp | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon | | DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 93.1% | Coming soon | | OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 83.4% | Coming soon | | Finance Agent v2 | Coming soon | 53.9% | Coming soon | | MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 82.2% | Coming soon | | Toolathlon | Coming soon | 59.9% | Coming soon | ### Coding - Winner: Claude Opus 4.8 - Claude Opus 4.7 public-lane score: 55.9 (Supported · #29/146) - Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 60.8 (Supported · #19/146) | Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | Vibe Code Bench | 71.00% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | React Native Evals | 82.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 38.5% | 46.5% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.1% | 87.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.0% | 88.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | PostTrainBench v1.1 | 28.6% | 32.9% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon | | SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 69.2% | Coming soon | | SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 84.4% | Coming soon | | SWE Multimodal | Coming soon | 38.4% | Coming soon | | Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 74.6% | Coming soon | | cursorBench31 | Coming soon | 58.4% | Coming soon | | CursorBench 3.2 | Coming soon | 62.3% | Coming soon | ### Reasoning - Winner: Not comparable - Claude Opus 4.7 public-lane score: Coming soon - Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 62.9 (#24/28) | Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 72.1% | Coming soon | | ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 1.5% | Coming soon | | ARC-AGI-1 | Coming soon | 92.50% | Coming soon | ### Multimodal & Grounded - Winner: Not comparable - Claude Opus 4.7 public-lane score: Coming soon - Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 91.2 (#5/54) | Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | OfficeQA Pro | Coming soon | 66.2% | Coming soon | | ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon | | CharXiv | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon | | CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 80.5% | Coming soon | ### Knowledge - Winner: Directional only - Claude Opus 4.7 public-lane score: 65.3 (Estimated · #32/177) - Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 70.7 (Supported · #14/177) | Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 90.2% | 92.4% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.9% | 89.6% | Claude Opus 4.7 | | GPQA | Coming soon | 93.6% | Coming soon | | GPQA-D | Coming soon | 93.6% | Coming soon | | HLE | Coming soon | 57.9% | Coming soon | | HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 49.8% | Coming soon | ### Multilingual - Winner: Not comparable - Claude Opus 4.7 public-lane score: Coming soon - Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: Coming soon | Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | INCLUDE | Coming soon | 87.6% | Coming soon | ### Instruction Following - Winner: Not comparable - Claude Opus 4.7 public-lane score: Coming soon - Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 75.4 (#61/127) ### Mathematics - Winner: Not comparable - Claude Opus 4.7 public-lane score: 61.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows) - Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 65.7 (#2/7) | Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 43.793% | 47.241% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 22.917% | 31.250% | Claude Opus 4.8 | | USAMO 2026 | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon | ## FAQ ### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.7 or Claude Opus 4.8? Claude Opus 4.8 has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. ### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Opus 4.8? The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 53.8 for Claude Opus 4.7 and 61.6 for Claude Opus 4.8. ### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.7 cover on BenchLM? Claude Opus 4.7 currently has 15 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM. ### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.8 cover on BenchLM? Claude Opus 4.8 currently has 40 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM. ## Related Comparisons - [Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)](/compare/claude-opus-4-7-vs-claude-opus-4-7-adaptive) - [Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)](/compare/claude-opus-4-7-adaptive-vs-claude-opus-4-8) - [Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-4-7-vs-claude-opus-5-5) - [Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-4-8-vs-claude-opus-5-5) ## Explore More - [Claude Opus 4.7 profile](/models/claude-opus-4-7) - [Claude Opus 4.8 profile](/models/claude-opus-4-8) - [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing) - [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder) - [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector) - [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)