Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Qwen Plus 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 PlusClaude 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 Qwen series models with balanced capabilities have inference performance and speed between Qwen-Max and Qwen-Turbo, making them suitable for moderately complex tasks. This model is a dynamically updated version, and updates will not be announced in advance. The current version is qwen-plus-2025-04-28.The model adopts tiered pricing.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Qwen Plus: $1.126/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen Plus: 0.8s 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 at 38.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
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