# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Inkling

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Inkling: $1.7625 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

Inkling: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling in General LLM at #21 against #88.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling in Reasoning at #10 against #85.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling in Coding › Web dev at #35 against #74.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling in Long context at #10 against #105.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling in Factuality at #24 against #58.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Inkling is ranked #58 in Factuality (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text factuality; methodology v1.0).