Models

Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Output tokens cost $55.00 per million on Claude Fable 5 and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $11.00 per million on Claude Fable 5 and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $1.10 per million on Claude Fable 5 and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 1,000,000 tokens on Claude Fable 5 and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 2.4s on Claude Fable 5 and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 51.4 tok/s on Claude Fable 5 and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Claude Fable 5 scores 1551 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 1520.

AnthropicClaude Fable 5QwenQwen3.8 Max Preview
Anthropic logo
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic · text, image → text

Anthropic's most capable widely released model, for the most demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work(This model is extremely expensive and is not recommended for casual use.)

Input$11.00 /M
Output$55.00 /M
Qwen logo
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

Pricing & Specifications

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

Claude Fable 5
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$11.00
$0.34
Output /M
$55.00
$1.01
Cache read /M
$1.10
$0.03
Context length
1,000,000
983,616
Max output
128,000
131,072
Time to First Token
2.4 s
2.4 s
Throughput
51.4 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
June 9, 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.

claude-fable-5qwen3.8-max-preview

Tokens / day

-

Requests / day

-

Performance Past 3 Days

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

claude-fable-5qwen3.8-max-preview

Throughput (tok/s)

-

TTFT (s)

-

Uptime (%)

-

LMArena Benchmarks

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

Text
claude-fable-5qwen3.8-max-preview
1440148015201560
Overall
14811508
Coding
15201551
Math
15041528
Hard prompts
15061533
Instruction following
14781512
Multi-turn
14961516
Creative writing
14691508
Longer query
14971522
Chinese
15451556
English
14861514
Vision
claude-fable-5qwen3.8-max-preview
128013201360
Overall
13021312
OCR
13171329
Diagram
13311362
Homework
13351347
WebDev Arena
claude-fable-5qwen3.8-max-preview
15201580164017001760
Overall
16261669
React
16301678
HTML
16281666
Gaming
16971733
Simulations
16651670
Data analytics
15531614

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 Fable 5
$1,485 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Fable 5, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; Claude Fable 5: $55.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Claude Fable 5: 1551; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s 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 Fable 5 accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Fable 5 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Fable 5 at 51.4 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 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 Fable 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 Fable 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.

Popular comparisons

Related model match-ups readers also look at.