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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Grok Imagine Video

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Claude Opus 4.8
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
Grok Imagine Video
xai/grok-imagine-video
Provider
Anthropic
xAI
Family
Claude 4
Modality
text
video
Context window
1,000,000 tok
Max output
128,000 tok
Released
2026-05-28
2026-05-22
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input price
$5.00 /1M
Output price
$25.00 /1M
Cache read
$0.500 /1M
Cache write
$6.25 /1M
Per output second
$0.050 /sec
Tools
yes
Streaming
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
yes
Batch API
yes
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Claude Opus 4.8
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
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Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model, with a step-change improvement in agentic coding over Claude Opus 4.7. It uses adaptive thinking to calibrate reasoning per task and supports a one million token context window at standard pricing.

Strengths
  • Anthropic's most capable model — #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
  • Best computer-use / browser agent tested (84% on Online-Mind2Web)
  • Adaptive thinking — calibrates reasoning depth per task
Use cases
Autonomous coding agentsCodebase-scale migrationsComputer use / browser agentsHigh-stakes reasoning + analysisLong-document work (1M context)
Grok Imagine Video
xai/grok-imagine-video
Full spec →

xAI's video generation model. Generates, edits, and extends videos from text and image inputs with native synchronized audio including dialogue, sound effects, and music. Supports multiple creative modes (normal, fun, custom).

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
Use cases
PromosDemosStoryboards

Benchmarks

Claude Opus 4.8
Grok Imagine Video
AA Intelligence Index
61.0
Online-Mind2Web (computer use)
84.0

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.4
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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Recraft V3
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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Claude Opus 4.8
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Grok Imagine Video
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-imagine-video",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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