Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3 Max
List-price comparison · Claude Opus 4.8 details · Qwen3 Max details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Qwen3 Max costs 84% less — $249.60/mo vs $1,600.00/mo.
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3 Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.780 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $3.90 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.016 | $0.0025 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Max output | 128k tokens | 32,768 tokens |
| Tier | Flagship | Balanced |
| Provider | Anthropic | Qwen |
Projected monthly cost
Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.
Claude Opus 4.8
Best-in-class for complex multi-step agentic workflows, long-horizon planning, and large codebase refactors. Strong instruction-following on ambiguous, open-ended tasks.
Highest per-token cost in the catalog and noticeably higher latency — reserve for tasks that genuinely need top-tier reasoning rather than routine completions.
Qwen3 Max
Strong multilingual reasoning (especially Chinese/English) and competitive coding benchmarks at open-weight pricing.
Cache-write pricing is unusually high relative to input cost — workloads that rely heavily on prompt caching should benchmark actual savings.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.