Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229
Anthropic · text, image → text
Input$3.3 /M
Output$16.5 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 from Anthropic and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.
Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$3.3
$1.69
Output /M
$16.5
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
NaN
1,000,000
Max output
0
131,072
Time to First Token
0.8 s
12.5 s
Throughput
66.6 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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August 3, 2026
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-3-sonnet-20240229qwen3.8-max
1220130013801460
Overall
12801482
Coding
13171317
Math
12531253
Hard prompts
12811281
Instruction following
12671267
Multi-turn
12771277
Creative writing
12451245
Longer query
12851285
Chinese
12751275
English
12881288
Vision
claude-3-sonnet-20240229qwen3.8-max
10001080116012401320
Overall
10161301
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
$177 /mo
Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229
$446 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229, Qwen3.8 Max?
Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M output tokens; Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229: $16.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229: 0.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 at 66.6 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 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 3 Sonnet 20240229 accepts text and image input; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
Can I call Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 and Qwen3.8 Max 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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