Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Qwen Plus 2025 04-28 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.
Claude Opus 4.8
Qwen Plus 2025 04-28Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it
The Qwen3 series Plus model effectively integrates thinking and non-thinking modes, allowing for mode switching during conversations. Its reasoning abilities significantly surpass those of QwQ, and its general capabilities are markedly superior to Qwen2.5-Plus, reaching state-of-the-art (SOTA) levels among models of the same scale. This version is a snapshot model as of April 28, 2025.
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Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: $1.126/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: 1380 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: 0.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and Qwen Plus 2025 04-28 at 10.9 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
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