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Claude Opus 5vsQwen3.8 27B
Claude Opus 5 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Qwen3.8 27B is 14.2x cheaper per token. Claude Opus 5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 0
Claude Opus 5 leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3.8 27B
14.2x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 5
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Qwen
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · released 2026-07-24
textvision
Qwen3.8 27B
Qwen · released 2026-08-14
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 8 only Claude Opus 5 · 3 only Qwen3.8 27B| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Qwen3.8 27B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 93.9% ↗epoch | 89.2% ↗ | +4.7 pt | Claude Opus 5 |
| Only Claude Opus 5 reports · 8 | ||||
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 56.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CursorBench 3.2.0 | 70% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 73.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 85.6% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1824 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 98.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 59.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 | 29% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.8 27B reports · 3 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1439.3 ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | not reported | 61.7% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | not reported | 73% ↗ | — | — |
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 5 minus Qwen3.8 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 5 | Qwen3.8 27B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 262K tokens | Claude Opus 5 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $0.424 ↗ | Qwen3.8 27B |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $1.7 ↗ | Qwen3.8 27B |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $2.12 | Qwen3.8 27B |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-07-24 | 2026-08-14 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 9 | 4 | — |
Reliability
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