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Claude Opus 4.8vsQwen3.6 27B

Claude Opus 4.8 leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Claude Opus 4.8 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
4 – 0
Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 4.8
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Qwen
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · released 2026-05-28
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$5
Output /1M
$25
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
17 · 13 core
Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen · released 2026-04-21
textvision
Context
262K
Max out
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
6 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.6 27BΔEdge
Reported by both · 4
SWE-bench Verified88.6% 77.2% +11.4 ptClaude Opus 4.8
GPQA Diamond93.6% 87.8% +5.8 ptClaude Opus 4.8
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)80% epoch35.1% epoch+44.9 ptClaude Opus 4.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)98.3% epoch91.1% epoch+7.2 ptClaude Opus 4.8
Only Claude Opus 4.8 reports · 12
AIME 2026100% matharenanot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)49.8% not reported
LMArena Elo1452.7 not reported
BrowseComp84.3% not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)56.1% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)57.9% not reported
OSWorld-Verified83.4% not reported
SimpleQA Verified53% epochnot reported
SWE-bench Multilingual84.4% not reported
SWE-bench Multimodal38.4% not reported
SWE-Bench Pro69.2% not reported
Terminal-Bench 2.174.6% not reported
Only Qwen3.6 27B reports · 1
MMLU-Pronot reported86.2%
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 Qwen3.6 27B 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

SpecClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.6 27BEdge
Context window1M tokens262K tokensClaude Opus 4.8
Max output128K tokens
Input price / 1M$5
Output price / 1M$25
Cached input / 1M$0.5
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$30
Modalitiestext · visiontext · visionTie
Released2026-05-282026-04-21
Cited benchmark scores176
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