Compare Claude Sonnet 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.
Claude Sonnet 5
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewClaude 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 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.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5: $10/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Sonnet 5: 1521; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Claude Sonnet 5: 1.0s time to first token 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 Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Sonnet 5 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Claude Sonnet 5 at 7839.1 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.
Claude Sonnet 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.
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