claude-opus-4-8 — Active — shutdown Not sooner than May 28, 2027
For claude-opus-4-8, provider is Anthropic; lifecycle status is Active; shutdown / retirement date is Not sooner than May 28, 2027; platform / deployment scope is Anthropic API / Claude Platform on AWS / Microsoft Foundry, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28.
- Provider
- Anthropic our reading
- Model ID / API name
- claude-opus-4-8 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Active verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- Not sooner than May 28, 2027 verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- Anthropic API / Claude Platform on AWS / Microsoft Foundry our reading
- Human-readable model name
- claude-opus-4-8 per raw.githubusercontent.com
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
| claude-opus-4-8 | Active | N/A | Not sooner than May 28, 2027 |
— docs.anthropic.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Sources disagree
More than one authority states this, and they do not state the same thing. Both are reproduced with the source each came from — deciding between them is yours, not ours.
Provider
docs.anthropic.com says provider is Anthropic, as of 2026-08-28.
| claude-opus-4-8 | Active | N/A | Not sooner than May 28, 2027 |
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations.md
raw.githubusercontent.com says provider is Microsoft Azure / Foundry, as of 2026-09-09.
| claude-opus-4-8 | 2 | GA | 2027-09-01 | — |
Lifecycle status
docs.anthropic.com says lifecycle status is Active, as of 2026-08-28.
| claude-opus-4-8 | Active | N/A | Not sooner than May 28, 2027 |
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations.md
raw.githubusercontent.com says lifecycle status is GA, as of 2026-09-09.
| claude-opus-4-8 | 2 | GA | 2027-09-01 | — |
Shutdown / retirement date
docs.anthropic.com says shutdown / retirement date is Not sooner than May 28, 2027, as of 2026-08-28.
| claude-opus-4-8 | Active | N/A | Not sooner than May 28, 2027 |
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations.md
raw.githubusercontent.com says shutdown / retirement date is 2027-09-01, as of 2026-09-09.
| claude-opus-4-8 | 2 | GA | 2027-09-01 | — |
Platform / deployment scope
docs.anthropic.com says platform / deployment scope is Anthropic API / Claude Platform on AWS / Microsoft Foundry, as of 2026-08-28.
| claude-opus-4-8 | Active | N/A | Not sooner than May 28, 2027 |
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations.md
raw.githubusercontent.com says platform / deployment scope is Azure / Microsoft Foundry, as of 2026-09-09.
| claude-opus-4-8 | 2 | GA | 2027-09-01 | — |
Sources
- docs.anthropic.comhttps://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations.md
- docs.anthropic.comhttps://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations
- raw.githubusercontent.comhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/foundry/openai/includes/concepts-model-retirement-schedule-content.md