Models

claude-opus-4-6-think vs qwen3.8-max-preview

Output tokens cost $25.00 per million on claude-opus-4-6-think and $1.01 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Input tokens cost $5.00 per million on claude-opus-4-6-think and $0.34 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.50 per million on claude-opus-4-6-think and $0.03 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Context lengths are 200,000 tokens on claude-opus-4-6-think and 983,616 tokens on qwen3.8-max-preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.7s on claude-opus-4-6-think and 2.4s on qwen3.8-max-preview. Measured output throughput is 42.2 tok/s on claude-opus-4-6-think and 48.1 tok/s on qwen3.8-max-preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard claude-opus-4-6-think scores 1547 and qwen3.8-max-preview scores 1529.

Anthropicclaude-opus-4-6-thinkQwenqwen3.8-max-preview
Anthropic logo
claude-opus-4-6-think
Anthropic · image, text → text

Claude Opus 4.6 does not enable reasoning mode by default. To access its deep reasoning capabilities, users would typically need to call the native Claude API. To make this capability available through an OpenAI-compatible interface, we provide the claude-opus-4-6-think model, which has reasoning mode pre-enabled and a default 32k-token context window, allowing it to be called directly via the OpenAI unified API. Claude Opus 4.5 Think is a reasoning-focused variant of Claude Opus 4.6 designed for advanced tasks that require rigorous reasoning, complex decision-making, and long-chain analysis. Aside from its enhanced reasoning mechanism, all other capabilities remain consistent with the standard Claude Opus 4.6 model, making it well suited for complex engineering problem decomposition, multi-stage planning, and logic-intensive analysis.

Input$5.00 /M
Output$25.00 /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-opus-4-6-think
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
1.7 s
2.4 s
Throughput
42.2 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
imagetext
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats

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-4-6-thinkqwen3.8-max-preview
1460150015401580
Overall
14911497
Coding
15291547
Math
15061513
Hard prompts
15161526
Instruction following
14811500
Multi-turn
15031512
Creative writing
14791479
Longer query
15071518
Chinese
15491556
English
14951507
Vision
claude-opus-4-6-thinkqwen3.8-max-preview
126013001340
Overall
12931301
OCR
13101317
Diagram
13271331
Homework
13141331
WebDev Arena
claude-opus-4-6-thinkqwen3.8-max-preview
1500158016601740
Overall
15371669
React
15291677
HTML
15501628
Gaming
15661734
Simulations
15451662
Data analytics
15151619

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-4-6-think
$675 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: claude-opus-4-6-think, qwen3.8-max-preview?

qwen3.8-max-preview: $1.01/M output tokens; claude-opus-4-6-think: $25.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

claude-opus-4-6-think: 1547; qwen3.8-max-preview: 1529 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

claude-opus-4-6-think: 1.7s 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-4-6-think accepts 200,000 and qwen3.8-max-preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on claude-opus-4-6-think 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-4-6-think at 42.2 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-4-6-think accepts image and text 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-4-6-think 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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