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Highest Output-Speed Claude Opus 4.8 Inference Providers

Ranks providers by their recent typical output speed in tokens per second. Providers without enough recent data remain visible after ranked rows.

Google Vertex currently ranks first at 74.0 tok/s via google-vertex/europe.

Provider options:
7
Ranked:
7
Metric:
Output speed

Highest output speed endpoint ranking

Highest Output-Speed Claude Opus 4.8 Inference Providers
RankProvider / routeOutput speedSpeed measurementsEndpoint details
#1Provider / route
Google Vertexgoogle-vertex/europe
Output speed74.0 tok/sSpeed measurements
500-token response
7.57 s
Response starts
0.82 s
Output speed
74.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Input price
$5.5 / 1M tokens
Output price
$27.5 / 1M tokens
Uptime (30 min)
Insufficient recent data
Context
1M
#2Provider / route
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/us
Output speed63.0 tok/sSpeed measurements
500-token response
10.23 s
Response starts
2.29 s
Output speed
63.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Input price
$5 / 1M tokens
Output price
$25 / 1M tokens
Uptime (30 min)
99.97%
Context
1M
#3Provider / route
Google Vertexgoogle-vertex/global
Output speed59.0 tok/sSpeed measurements
500-token response
9.70 s
Response starts
1.23 s
Output speed
59.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Input price
$5 / 1M tokens
Output price
$25 / 1M tokens
Uptime (30 min)
100.00%
Context
1M
#4Provider / route
Anthropicanthropic
Output speed57.0 tok/sSpeed measurements
500-token response
10.41 s
Response starts
1.64 s
Output speed
57.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Input price
$5 / 1M tokens
Output price
$25 / 1M tokens
Uptime (30 min)
99.82%
Context
1M
#5Provider / route
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/eu-west-1
Output speed54.0 tok/sSpeed measurements
500-token response
11.09 s
Response starts
1.83 s
Output speed
54.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Input price
$5.5 / 1M tokens
Output price
$27.5 / 1M tokens
Uptime (30 min)
Insufficient recent data
Context
1M
#6Provider / route
Anthropicanthropic/2
Output speed49.0 tok/sSpeed measurements
500-token response
11.99 s
Response starts
1.78 s
Output speed
49.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Input price
$5 / 1M tokens
Output price
$25 / 1M tokens
Uptime (30 min)
99.98%
Context
1M
#7Provider / route
Azureazure/us-east-2
Output speed40.0 tok/sSpeed measurements
500-token response
19.94 s
Response starts
7.44 s
Output speed
40.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Input price
$5 / 1M tokens
Output price
$25 / 1M tokens
Uptime (30 min)
Insufficient recent data
Context
1M

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Claude Opus 4.8 endpoint guide

How to interpret the Highest Output-Speed Claude Opus 4.8 Inference Providers

7 of 7 Claude Opus 4.8 endpoints currently have the published data required for this ranking. Google Vertex leads at 74.0 tok/s via google-vertex/europe. The table keeps unranked routes visible so missing measurements do not look like missing provider availability.

How generation throughput is ranked

The output-speed ranking compares recent median generated tokens per second. It favors routes that complete long generations quickly, while first-token latency remains a separate measure of how responsive the endpoint feels at the beginning.

Compare Google Vertex with the next option

Amazon Bedrock currently ranks second at 63.0 tok/s. Compare that gap with input and output price, response-start time, output speed, 30-minute uptime, context length, and the exact route before deciding whether first place is meaningful for your workload.

Use the route, not only the provider name

Claude Opus 4.8 has 7 published provider options, and performance data is matched to each exact OpenRouter routing tag. Different quantization, context, regional deployment, or provider configuration can change price and behavior even when the underlying model name is identical.