Models

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 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.

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Anthropic logo
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

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

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
Qwen logo
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Qwen · text, image → text

The open-source thinking model based on Qwen3 has significantly improved in logical ability, general capability, knowledge enhancement, and creative ability compared to the previous version (Tongyi Qianwen 3-235B-A22B). It is suitable for high-difficulty and strong reasoning scenarios.

Input$0.28 /M
Output$2.8 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 4.8
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Input /M
$5
$0.28
Output /M
$25
$2.8
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
1,000,000
262,144
Max output
128,000
131,072
Time to First Token
1.1 s
0.3 s
Throughput
82.6 tok/s
87.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
May 28, 2026
July 25, 2025

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-4-8qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
1340140014601520
Overall
13991473
Coding
14421527
Math
13981474
Hard prompts
14181503
Instruction following
13861477
Multi-turn
13941495
Creative writing
13741465
Longer query
14011499
Chinese
14481523
English
14051480

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 235B A22B Thinking 2507
$58.80 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: $2.8/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: 1442 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: 0.3s 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 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 accepts 262,144 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 at 87.4 tok/s and Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 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 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 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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