India, May 29 -- Anthropic has officially launched Claude Opus 4.8 - a direct challenger to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro. The release comes with a primary focus on agentic coding, large-scale automation and improved reasoning. The company also says the new model is significantly 'more honest and less likely to make unsupported claims during complex workflows'.

According to Athropic, Opus 4.8 is available globally immediately and keeps the same pricing structure as Opus 4.7 despite broad capability upgrades.

Anthropic published a direct comparison chart in its press release. While Claude Opus 4.8 leads most benchmark categories overall, GPT-5.5 actually outperformed it in one critical area: agentic terminal coding.

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