Output tokens cost $10.00 per million on claude-sonnet-5 and $5.07 per million on qwen3.8-max. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on claude-sonnet-5 and $1.69 per million on qwen3.8-max. Cached input tokens are billed at $2.00 per million on claude-sonnet-5 and $0.17 per million on qwen3.8-max. Context windows are 1,000,000 tokens on claude-sonnet-5 and 991,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max. First-token latency measured on AIHubMix is 3.3s on claude-sonnet-5 and 3.5s on qwen3.8-max. Measured output throughput is 91.0 tokens/s on claude-sonnet-5 and 37.1 tokens/s on qwen3.8-max. On the LMArena coding leaderboard claude-sonnet-5 scores 1526 and qwen3.8-max scores 1530.
claude-sonnet-5
qwen3.8-maxClaude Sonnet 5 is the next generation of Anthropic's Sonnet model family. It is a drop-in upgrade for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with three behavior changes: adaptive thinking is on by default, manual extended thinking now returns a 400 error (it was deprecated on Claude Sonnet 4.6), and setting sampling parameters (temperature, top_p, top_k) to non-default values returns a 400 error
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.
Prices are per million tokens. Latency and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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qwen3.8-max: $5.07/M output tokens; claude-sonnet-5: $10.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
qwen3.8-max: 1530; claude-sonnet-5: 1526 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
claude-sonnet-5: 3.3s first-token latency measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
claude-sonnet-5 accepts 1,000,000 and qwen3.8-max accepts 991,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on claude-sonnet-5 and 128,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max.
claude-sonnet-5 at 91.0 tokens/s and qwen3.8-max at 37.1 tokens/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from first-token latency.
claude-sonnet-5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; qwen3.8-max accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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