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 32B
Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Qwen3 32B 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.
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Activity Past 30 Days
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Performance Past 3 Days
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LMArena Benchmarks
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Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Cost calculator
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, Qwen3 32B?
Qwen3 32B: $0.64/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 32B: 1408 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Which responds faster?
Claude Opus 4.8: 1.1s 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?
Qwen3 32B at 93.3 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.
Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3 32B 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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