Claude Mythos vs Claude Opus 4.8, gated Frontier vs Shipping Flagship

Claude MythosClaude Opus 4.8
arenaElo14781435
humanEval98.794.5
sweBench93.967
mmlu94.293
gpqa94.667.5
aime97.690
Price in/out ($/M)$25 / $125$5 / $25

Our verdict

Mythos posts higher raw benchmarks but stays a gated research preview at 5× the price. Opus 4.8 is the practical frontier you can actually ship on, generally available across Anthropic API, Bedrock and Vertex AI at $5 / $25 per M tokens, leading agentic coding and computer use. Pick Mythos only if Anthropic green-lit your use case; otherwise Opus 4.8 is the default for production.

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