Models

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Compare Claude Opus 4.5 from Anthropic and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.5QwenQwen3.8 Max Preview
Anthropic logo
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic · text, image → text

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations. ⚠️ The minimum cache token for claude-opus-4-5 has been increased from 1,024 to 4,096 tokens.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
Qwen logo
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

Input$0.338 /M
Output$1.014 /M
Cache read$0.0338 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 4.5
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$5
$0.338
Output /M
$25
$1.014
Cache read /M
$0.5
$0.0338
Context length
200,000
983,616
Max output
32,000
131,072
Time to First Token
1.5 s
2.4 s
Throughput
48.6 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

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

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

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

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

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

Text
claude-opus-4-5qwen3.8-max-preview
1440148015201560
Overall
14691480
Coding
15201523
Math
14661497
Hard prompts
14981502
Instruction following
14751477
Multi-turn
14841493
Creative writing
14611466
Longer query
14921493
Chinese
15011536
English
14791488
WebDev Arena
claude-opus-4-5qwen3.8-max-preview
14401520160016801760
Overall
14661670
React
14591679
HTML
14741628
Gaming
17351735
Simulations
16671667
Data analytics
16151615

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.

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo
Claude Opus 4.5
$675 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.5, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.5: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Claude Opus 4.5: 1523; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Claude Opus 4.5: 1.5s time to first token 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 4.5 accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.5 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Opus 4.5 at 48.6 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview 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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