Qwen3.8 MaxvsClaude Opus 4 8 Thinking

Qwen3.8 Max leads the overall Podium Score by 5.8 points (79.8 vs 74.0).Category wins: Qwen3.8 Max 0 — 0 Claude Opus 4 8 Thinking.Qwen3.8 Max is the cheaper pick ($2/M vs $15/M per 1M output tokens). Qwen3.8 Max is faster (55 t/s vs 50 t/s).

MetricQwen3.8 MaxClaude Opus 4 8 Thinking
Podium Score79.8 ▲74.0
Arena Elo1496
Intelligence Index
Coding50.3
Math5.0
Reasoning66.3
Agentic
Knowledge
Multimodal85.4
Long-context99.2
Output speed55 t/s ▲50 t/s
Output price$2/M ▲$15/M
Context window1000K ▲128K
Scores aggregated from five leaderboards on 2026-08-05. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Qwen3.8 Max vs Claude Mythos Preview · Qwen3.8 Max vs Claude Fable 5 · Qwen3.8 Max vs Kimi K3 · Qwen3.8 Max vs Claude Opus 5