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Claude Opus 4.8vsQwen3.5-Plus
Claude Opus 4.8 leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Qwen3.5-Plus is 37.4x cheaper per token. Both offer a 1M-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
3 – 0
Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3.5-Plus
37.4x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Qwen
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · released 2026-05-28
textvision
Qwen3.5-Plus
Qwen · released 2026-02-15
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 13 only Claude Opus 4.8 · 0 only Qwen3.5-Plus| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5-Plus | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 93.6% ↗ | 84.8% ↗epoch | +8.8 pt | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 98.3% ↗epoch | 86.7% ↗epoch | +11.6 pt | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 53% ↗epoch | 25.4% ↗epoch | +27.6 pt | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Only Claude Opus 4.8 reports · 13 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 88.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | 100% ↗matharena ⚠ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 49.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1452.7 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BrowseComp | 84.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 56.1% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 80% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 57.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 83.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 84.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | 38.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 69.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 74.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.5-Plus reports · 0 | ||||
| Qwen3.5-Plus reports nothing Claude Opus 4.8 does not. | ||||
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.8 minus Qwen3.5-Plus in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5-Plus | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens | Tie |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $0.115 ↗ | Qwen3.5-Plus |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $0.688 ↗ | Qwen3.5-Plus |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $0.803 | Qwen3.5-Plus |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-05-28 | 2026-02-15 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 17 | 3 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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