Opus 4.8 shipped on 28 May 2026, 41 days after 4.7.

Standard pricing did not move. Five dollars per million tokens in, twenty five out.

SWE-bench Verified nudged from 87.6 to 88.6. SWE-bench Pro climbed from 64.3 to 69.2, about five points. On GDPval-AA it posted 1890, ahead of GPT-5.5.

Anthropic's own word for the release is "modest".

They are right, and I respect them for saying it plainly. A point of SWE-bench is not why you would move a working setup.