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claude-3-opus model retirement
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Calls to the model claude-3-opus on Anthropic stopped working on January 5, 2026.
The error you get
What Anthropic answers a call to claude-3-opus once the model is gone, as recorded from real responses:
{"type":"error","error":{"type":"not_found_error","message":"model: claude-3-opus"}}What to use instead of claude-3-opus
Move to claude-opus-4-8, recommended by Anthropic.
In Anthropic's words
Retirement date: January 5, 2026; Deprecated model: claude-3-opus-20240229; Recommended replacement: claude-opus-4-8
Facts
- API
- Anthropic
api.anthropic.com - Model
claude-3-opus- Kind
- Model retirement
- Takes effect
- January 5, 2026
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- Deprecations page
- Last updated
- Verified
- , against Anthropic's own pages
Questions
When does claude-3-opus shut down?
Calls to the model claude-3-opus on Anthropic stopped working on January 5, 2026.
What happens to calls after January 5, 2026?
They have failed since January 5, 2026.
What error does claude-3-opus return once it is shut down?
Anthropic answers HTTP 404: "model: claude-3-opus". Send another model to fix it.
How do I find the calls this hits in my code?
Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.
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