Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Head to head on 25 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
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| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | 66.7% | 67.0% | 53.9% | 47.2% | 92.0% | 48.7% | 62.2% | 80.1% | 79.3% | 78.3% | 67.4% | 81.4% | 84.3% | 89.7% | 53.2% | 85.8% | 69.9% | 54.8% | 53.5% | 75.6% | 58.3% | 60.9% | 70.9% | 82.7% | 94.4% | - | 15.5% | 80.4% | 14.5% | 1281elo | 1835elo | 80.8 | 40.0% | 13.4% | 22.5% | 1890elo | 56.9% | - | - | 10.4% | 91.8% | - | - | - | 83.4% | 69.0% | - | 69.2% | 82.7% | - | 63.4% |
| Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba | 61.9% | 23.0% | 40.8% | 26.2% | 88.2% | 27.8% | 75.2% | 73.5% | 78.2% | 69.9% | 58.3% | 75.0% | 83.7% | 75.8% | 36.9% | 77.0% | 68.0% | 44.9% | 40.7% | 74.7% | 43.9% | 32.0% | 51.5% | 25.6% | 97.7% | 95.3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 96.7 | 83.2% | - | - | 88.5 | 94.5 | 89.5 | - | - | 73.8 | - | - | 59.5 | 59.0% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) is an AI model from Anthropic. | Qwen3.6Plus is an AI model from Alibaba. |
| Family | Claude | Qwen3.6 |
| Params | - | - |
| Open weights | - | closed |
| License | - | proprietary |
| Released | 28 May 2026 | 2 Apr 2026 |
| Context | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Input $/1M | $5.00 | $0.50 |
| Output $/1M | $25.00 | $3.00 |
| Cache read $/1M | $0.500 | - |
| Cache write $/1M | $6.250 | $0.406 |
| Speed | 0 tok/s | 0 tok/s |
| Latency | 0.00 s | 0.00 s |
| Modalities | text, image, file | text, image, video |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Reported scores | GPQA Diamond88.2% (AA) Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)27.8% (AA) IFBench75.2% (AA) SciCode40.7% (AA) τ²-bench (Tau²-bench)97.7% (AA) |
FAQ
- Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.6 Plus better?
- Across the 25 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude Opus 4.8 leads on 23 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.6 Plus compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude Opus 4.8 scores 92.0% and Qwen3.6 Plus scores 88.2% on GPQA Diamond.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper at $3.00 per million output tokens against $25.00 for Claude Opus 4.8 - about 8.3x.
- When were Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.6 Plus released?
- Claude Opus 4.8 was released 28 May 2026 by Anthropic. Qwen3.6 Plus was released 2 Apr 2026 by Alibaba.
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