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Claude Opus 4.8vsLongCat 2.0

Claude Opus 4.8 leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 1M-token context window.

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Shared benchmarks
4 – 0
Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Meituan LongCat
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · released 2026-05-28
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$5
Output /1M
$25
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
17 · 13 core
LongCat 2.0
Meituan LongCat · released 2026-06-30
text
Context
1M
Max out
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
10 · 4 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8LongCat 2.0ΔEdge
Reported by both · 4
GPQA Diamond93.6% 88.9% +4.7 ptClaude Opus 4.8
BrowseComp84.3% 79.9% +4.4 ptClaude Opus 4.8
SWE-bench Multilingual84.4% 77.3% +7.1 ptClaude Opus 4.8
Terminal-Bench 2.174.6% 70.8% +3.8 ptClaude Opus 4.8
Only Claude Opus 4.8 reports · 12
SWE-bench Verified88.6% not reported
AIME 2026100% matharenanot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)49.8% not reported
LMArena Elo1452.7 not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)56.1% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)80% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)57.9% not reported
OSWorld-Verified83.4% not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)98.3% epochnot reported
SimpleQA Verified53% epochnot reported
SWE-bench Multimodal38.4% not reported
SWE-Bench Pro69.2% not reported
Only LongCat 2.0 reports · 6
FORTEnot reported73.2%
IFEvalnot reported90%
IMO-AnswerBenchnot reported81.8%
RWSearchnot reported78.8%
SWE-bench Pronot reported59.5%
Writing Benchnot reported83.8%
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.8 minus LongCat 2.0 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Opus 4.8LongCat 2.0Edge
Context window1M tokens1M tokensTie
Max output128K tokens
Input price / 1M$5
Output price / 1M$25
Cached input / 1M$0.5
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$30
Modalitiestext · visiontextClaude Opus 4.8
Released2026-05-282026-06-30
Cited benchmark scores1710
Reliability

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