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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Vendorqwenanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score97.994.7
Input Price$2.00/M$2.50/M
Output Price$6.00/M$12.50/M
Context Window1,000,0001,000,000
Max Output131,072128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index95.894.6
ai_index_agentic96.481.5
ai_index_coding100.0100.0
eqbench-83.3

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 MaxAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
SQL Generation 175 178
Code Review 170 179
Code Completion 120 121
Code Refactoring 167 176
Bug Fixing 186 193
Unit Test Generation 157 161
Code Documentation 143 148
Regex Writing 137 138
CI/CD Pipelines 147 151
Frontend Component Design 149 151
Data Analysis 176 178
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 158
ETL Scripting 157 164
JSON Extraction 140 138
Bulk Data Labeling 125 123
OCR / Document Parsing 147 149
Table Extraction from PDFs 147 149
Long-Document Summarization 162 171
Short-Form Summarization 124 123
Blog Post Writing 142 146

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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