Claude 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
Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3 14B
Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Qwen3 14B 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.
Achieves effective integration of thinking and non-thinking modes, enabling mode switching during conversations. Its reasoning ability reaches state-of-the-art (SOTA) levels among models of the same scale, and its general capability significantly surpasses Qwen2.5-14B.
Pricing & Specifications
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, Qwen3 14B?
Qwen3 14B: $1.6/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
Qwen3 14B: 0.3s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and Qwen3 14B at 59.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3 14B 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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