claude-opus-5 vs qwen3.8-max

Output tokens cost $25.00 per million on claude-opus-5 and $5.07 per million on qwen3.8-max. Input tokens cost $5.00 per million on claude-opus-5 and $1.69 per million on qwen3.8-max. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.50 per million on claude-opus-5 and $0.17 per million on qwen3.8-max. Context windows are 1,000,000 tokens on claude-opus-5 and 991,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max. First-token latency measured on AIHubMix is 1.4s on claude-opus-5 and 3.5s on qwen3.8-max. Measured output throughput is 56.7 tokens/s on claude-opus-5 and 37.1 tokens/s on qwen3.8-max. On the LMArena coding leaderboard claude-opus-5 scores 1532 and qwen3.8-max scores 1530.

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claude-opus-5

Anthropic · text, image → text

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis of charts and documents, complex office deliverables, and coordinating parallel subagents. The model maintains strong instruction following and tool use across extended tasks, while remaining effective at lower effort settings for workloads that prioritize latency and token efficiency.

Input$5.00 /M

Output$25.00 /M

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qwen3.8-max

Qwen · text → text

Qwen 3.8 Max(qwen3.8-max) is Alibaba Cloud’s flagship native vision-language model, built on a 2.4-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and supporting context windows of up to 1 million tokens. It is well suited for complex multimodal understanding, advanced reasoning, software development, agentic workflows, and long-context processing. At a similar price to Qwen3.7-Max, Qwen3.8-Max delivers significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities, with overall performance comparable to today’s leading models.

Input$1.69 /M

Output$5.07 /M

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Specs & Pricing

Prices are per million tokens. Latency and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

claude-opus-5

qwen3.8-max

Input price

$5.00

$1.69

Output price

$25.00

$5.07

Cache read

$0.50

$0.17

Context window

1,000,000

991,000

Max output

128,000

Latency (first token)

1.4 s

3.5 s

Throughput

56.7 TPS

37.1 TPS

Modalities

textimage

text

Features

thinkingtoolsstructured outputslong contextweb

toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking

Endpoints

chat_completions · claude_api · responses

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Usage on AIHubMix last 30 days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

claude-opus-5qwen3.8-max

Tokens / day

Requests / day

Live Performance last 3 days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

claude-opus-5qwen3.8-max

Throughput (TPS)

Latency (s)

Uptime (%)

Arena Scores

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text

claude-opus-5qwen3.8-max

1440150015601620

Overall

14921496

Coding

15301532

Math

15371537

Hard prompts

15181520

Instruction following

14861498

Multi-turn

14861507

Creative writing

14721493

Longer query

15061510

Chinese

15601590

English

14931503

Vision

claude-opus-5qwen3.8-max

126013001340

Overall

12951305

OCR

13051319

Diagram

13231331

Homework

13411341

WebDev Arena

claude-opus-5qwen3.8-max

1560162016801740

Overall

16681669

React

16841688

HTML

16101668

Gaming

17401750

Simulations

16671725

Data analytics

15851597

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.

Requests / day

Avg input tokens / request

Avg output tokens / request

qwen3.8-max

$177 /mo

claude-opus-5

$675 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: claude-opus-5, qwen3.8-max?

qwen3.8-max: $5.07/M output tokens; claude-opus-5: $25.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

claude-opus-5: 1532; qwen3.8-max: 1530 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

claude-opus-5: 1.4s first-token latency 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-5 accepts 1,000,000 and qwen3.8-max accepts 991,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on claude-opus-5 and 128,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

claude-opus-5 at 56.7 tokens/s and qwen3.8-max at 37.1 tokens/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from first-token latency.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

claude-opus-5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, structured outputs, long context and web search; qwen3.8-max accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call claude-opus-5 and qwen3.8-max 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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