Claude user: Opus 4.8 with High thinking beats Opus 5
Reddit user reports Opus 4.8 with thinking set to "High" delivers the best results at the lowest cost, beating Opus 5 in their workflows. They credit its advanced reasoning on large, multi-file tasks, where it tracks the overall goal through individual folders and files.
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