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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Output tokens cost $25.00 per million on Claude Opus 4.5 and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $5.00 per million on Claude Opus 4.5 and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.50 per million on Claude Opus 4.5 and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 200,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.5 and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.5s on Claude Opus 4.5 and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 43.9 tok/s on Claude Opus 4.5 and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Claude Opus 4.5 scores 1523 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 1520.

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.5QwenQwen3.8 Max Preview
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Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic · text, image → text

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations. ⚠️ The minimum cache token for claude-opus-4-5 has been increased from 1,024 to 4,096 tokens.

Input$5.00 /M
Output$25.00 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

Input$0.34 /M
Output$1.01 /M
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Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 4.5
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$5.00
$0.34
Output /M
$25.00
$1.01
Cache read /M
$0.50
$0.03
Context length
200,000
983,616
Max output
32,000
131,072
Time to First Token
1.5 s
2.4 s
Throughput
43.9 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
claude-opus-4-5qwen3.8-max-preview
1440148015201560
Overall
14691481
Coding
15201523
Math
14661504
Hard prompts
14981506
Instruction following
14751478
Multi-turn
14841496
Creative writing
14611469
Longer query
14931497
Chinese
15011545
English
14791486
WebDev Arena
claude-opus-4-5qwen3.8-max-preview
14401520160016801760
Overall
14661669
React
14591678
HTML
14741628
Gaming
17331733
Simulations
16651665
Data analytics
16141614

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo
Claude Opus 4.5
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.5, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.5: $25.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Claude Opus 4.5: 1523; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Claude Opus 4.5: 1.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Claude Opus 4.5 accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.5 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and Claude Opus 4.5 at 43.9 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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