Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-6 Astra
Compare Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-6 Astra side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, Classification, OCR, Object Detection, and Open Prompt.
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Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-6 Astra on Vision Evals
GPT-6 Astra scores higher on 4 of the six Vision Evals tasks.
The widest gap is Object Detection, where GPT-6 Astra leads 82.1% to 38.6%.
Overall, Claude Opus 4.8 averages 68.7% (#28 of 53) against 86.6% (#1 of 53) for GPT-6 Astra.
Claude Opus 4.8 is both cheaper ($0.016 vs $0.030 per sample) and faster (5.2s vs 6.7s per sample).
Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-6 Astra Comparison Table
Evals updated September 5, 2026Pricing updated September 5, 2026
| Property | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | May 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 1.1M |
| Parameters | Undisclosed | |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $5.00 | $10.00 |
| Output $/1M | $25.00 | $50.00 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Demo |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | Demo |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | Demo |
| OCR | Demo | Demo |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Demo |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 68.7% | 86.6% |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.016 | $0.030 |
| Avg speed / sample | 5.20s | 6.67s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 38.6% | 82.1% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.0 to 82.7 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 83.6% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.8 to 84.5 |
| Counting (low) | 54.0% | 80.2% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 81.1 |
| Counting (high) | – | 81.1% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 79.7 to 82.4 |
| Identification (low) | 84.4% | 89.6% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6 |
| Identification (high) | – | 92.7% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8 |
| OCR (low) | 93.8% | 91.9% ±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.6 to 92.1 |
| OCR (high) | – | 91.5% ±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.3 to 91.7 |
| Data Extraction (low) | 88.7% | 88.7% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.6 to 89.7 |
| Data Extraction (high) | – | 91.1% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.7 to 91.8 |
| Reasoning (low) | 53.0% | 87.2% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.1 to 88.1 |
| Reasoning (high) | 52.3% | 91.2% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.7 to 91.4 |
Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-6 Astra: Overview
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available large language model, released on May 28, 2026 as an incremental upgrade to Claude Opus 4.7. The model accepts text and image inputs and produces text outputs, with a 1 million token context window on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI (200k tokens on Microsoft Foundry) and up to 128k max output tokens. It uses adaptive thinking and supports adjustable effort tiers — high by default, with extra and max tiers available for more demanding tasks. A fast mode operates at approximately 2.5x standard speed. The model is described by Anthropic as a hybrid reasoning model designed for advanced coding, agentic workflows, long-context reasoning, and professional knowledge work.
Key behavioral improvements over Opus 4.7 include substantially reduced rates of unreported code flaws, improved honesty in self-assessment, and better tool-calling reliability. On Anthropic's Super-Agent benchmark, Opus 4.8 completes every case end-to-end, and it scores 84% on Online-Mind2Web for computer-use and browser-agent tasks. It achieves 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified and 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro. Alongside the model, Anthropic launched Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (research preview), which enables Claude to orchestrate hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale tasks such as large migrations. The Messages API was also updated to accept mid-task system messages without breaking prompt caching, improving support for long-running agentic pipelines.
GPT-6 Astra is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI that accepts text and image input and produces text output. It is positioned as the company's flagship system for long-horizon end-to-end work spanning complex reasoning, software engineering, computer use, browsing, research and document creation. The model exposes a graduated reasoning effort control with low, medium, high, xhigh and max settings, and it accepts a change to that setting partway through a conversation rather than only at request time. It launches as a single tier with no smaller mini or nano variants, carries a context window of roughly 1.05 million tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, and reports a knowledge cutoff of April 30, 2026.
OpenAI reports evaluation results across agentic, scientific and security benchmarks, including 96.0% on GPQA Diamond, 64.6% on Terminal-Bench Science, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, and a perfect score on ExploitBench, along with near saturation on FrontierMath Tier 4 and ARC-AGI-3. The model supports computer use, structured outputs, streaming, programmatic tool calling, multi-agent orchestration, prompt caching and persisted reasoning, and it keeps earlier context windows searchable so it can recover requirements or tool outputs from previous turns. OpenAI describes Astra as the first of its models to cross the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.
Frequently Asked Questions
On Roboflow's Vision Evals, GPT-6 Astra performed better. It scores higher on 4 of the six vision tasks and averages 86.6% (#1 of 53) against 68.7% (#28 of 53) for Claude Opus 4.8. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.
No. On the Vision Evals Object Detection benchmark at low effort, GPT-6 Astra leads with 82.1% against 38.6%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.
Claude Opus 4.8 is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.016 per sample against $0.030. Claude Opus 4.8 is priced at $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output; GPT-6 Astra is priced at $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.
Claude Opus 4.8 is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 5.2s per inference against 6.7s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and image classification in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.