Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Qwen Turbo 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 TurboClaude 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 model with the fastest speed and lowest cost, suitable for simple tasks. This model is a dynamically updated version, and updates will not be announced in advance. The model's overall Chinese and English abilities have been significantly improved, human preference alignment has been greatly enhanced, inference capability and complex instruction understanding have been substantially strengthened, performance on difficult tasks is better, and mathematics and coding skills have been significantly improved. The current version is qwen-turbo-2025-04-28.
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Qwen Turbo: $0.092/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
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