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docs(benchmark): Publish Opus 4.8 high comparison - #395

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Add fresh traced Opus 4.8 high benchmark rows for Claude SDK and Pi, then update the benchmark page with what the traces show. The page now explains both the runtime cost gap and why Opus 4.8 high trails Sonnet 4.6 on recall.

Traced Benchmark Rows

Adds complete traced corpus rows for claude-opus-4-8 through Claude SDK and anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 through Pi, then supersedes the older Opus 4.8 rows.

Runtime Analysis

Records sanitized trace aggregates showing Claude SDK cost comes from larger repeated input/cache context, while Pi does more turns and tool executions in the high-effort pair.

Cross-Model Analysis

Adds the 4.8-versus-4.6 explanation: Opus 4.8 high emits fewer and cleaner candidate findings, but exits investigations earlier and misses enough known corpus issues to trail Sonnet 4.6 on recall.

dcramer and others added 2 commits June 5, 2026 04:01
Add fresh traced Claude SDK and Pi high-effort Opus 4.8 benchmark rows.

Record the runtime cost analysis showing the Claude SDK cost gap comes from larger input context rather than extra tool fanout.

Co-Authored-By: GPT-5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the cross-model comparison between Opus 4.8 high and Sonnet 4.6 to the benchmark analysis data and page copy. Capture the evidence that Opus is cleaner but more selective on this corpus.

Co-Authored-By: GPT-5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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