BenchLeader

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Qwen3.8 Max

Verdict
  • Claude Opus 4.7 and Qwen3.8 Max (max) are level on quality (63.7 vs 64.2).
  • Claude Opus 4.7 is stronger in agents & tools, human preference, maths, multimodal.
  • Qwen3.8 Max (max) is stronger in coding, knowledge, reasoning, composite, long context.
  • Qwen3.8 Max (max) is 3.3× cheaper ($3.00 vs $10.00 per 1M blended).
  • Claude Opus 4.7 streams 2.2× faster (81 vs 37 tokens per second).
MetricClaude Opus 4.7Qwen3.8 Max (max)
BenchLeader Index63.764.2
Agents & tools score67.558.2
Coding score61.664.6
Human preference score68.668.0
Knowledge score62.362.7
Maths score67.165.1
Multimodal score66.866.2
Reasoning score65.372.2
Composite score–70.7
Long context score–65.4
Blended price $/M$10.00$3.00
Output speed81 tok/s37 tok/s
Time to first answer1.5 s58.9 s
Context window1M1M
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%–
Terminal-Bench80.2%27.0%
SimpleBench61.7%–
SciCode–53.2%
WeirdML76.4%–
APEX-Agents–63.3%
FrontierCode38.5%–
ProofBench–58.0%
GSO-Bench44.1%–
Epoch Capabilities Index156.3156.4
LMArena Text14941483
LMArena Hard Prompts15191504
LMArena Coding15471524
LMArena WebDev15551672
LMArena Vision13161314
LMArena Agent–2.3
LiveBench–78.5%
LiveBench Reasoning–88.2%
LiveBench Coding–72.9%
LiveBench Agentic Coding–64.7%
LiveBench Mathematics–91.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis–78.4%
LiveBench Language–79.7%
LiveBench Instruction Following–74.1%
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2–45.4
AA-LCR–80.3%
MMMU-Pro–82.8%
AA-Omniscience–12.0
GPQA Diamond (AA)–92.8%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)–43.1%
SciCode (AA)–53.2%
AIME (Vals)96.3%–
LiveCodeBench85.1%87.8%
MMLU-Pro89.9%88.6%
IOI–68.9%
LegalBench85.3%83.6%
CorpFin66.1%65.8%
TaxEval75.3%75.5%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)68.5%67.4%
SWE-bench (Vals)82.0%85.6%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)90.2%93.7%
Vals Index–48.3
HiL-Bench41.7%–
EQ-Bench 41311–
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%–
CritPt–20.0%
GDPval-AA v2.1–58.6%
τ³-Banking (AA)–51.3%
ITBench SRE (AA)–40.3%
Analyst Agent (AA)–45.0%
APEX-Agents (AA)–42.4%
CaseLaw v268.4%–
Code Migration43.9%24.0%
CyberBench–28.6%
Excel Modeling Benchmark63.7%60.1%
Finance Agent v251.5%50.6%
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark6.7%10.4%
Legal Research Bench38.5%47.6%
MedCode54.9%40.7%
MedScribe83.0%85.0%
MMMU-Pro (Vals)85.5%88.0%
MortgageTax70.3%64.0%
MysteryMechanism–23.9%
ProgramBench0.0%0.0%
Public Benefits Bench–67.1%
SAGE56.1%51.3%
SkillsBench–42.0%
Tax Agent Bench63.9%66.0%
Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Vals)68.5%–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)–34.3%
Terminal-Bench Science–1.4%
Vals Multimodal Index67.4%65.4%
Vibe Code Bench 1-100–12.8%
Vibe Code Bench v1.171.0%64.7%
SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA40.3%–
SWE Atlas: Refactoring48.6%–
SWE Atlas: Test Writing38.5%–
LMArena Maths14921497
LMArena Creative Writing14831470
LMArena Instruction Following14931474
LMArena Multi-turn15141492
LMArena Longer Queries15081492
LMArena Search1212–
LMArena Document1494–
Mystery Game Puzzles13.0%–
ExploitBench26.5%–
ForecastBench60.3%–
GBAEval43.8%–
ALE-Bench1323.0–
Vending-Bench 210936.8–
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)–38.9%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)–88.8%
AutomationBench–56.2%
GDP.pdf–22.8%
MLCR–20.0%
EnterpriseOps-Gym–47.6%
AA-Omniscience: accuracy–31.9%
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination–71.2%
AA-Briefcase v1.1–1617

Data as of 2026-10-11. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Qwen3.8 Max: questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Qwen3.8 Max?
Claude Opus 4.7 and Qwen3.8 Max (max) are level on quality (63.7 vs 64.2). The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Qwen3.8 Max (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-10-11, but check the category scores for your use.
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Qwen3.8 Max for coding?
Qwen3.8 Max scores higher in coding (65 vs 62 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Qwen3.8 Max for agentic tasks?
Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in agentic tasks (68 vs 58 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Qwen3.8 Max?
Qwen3.8 Max is cheaper: $3.00 against $10.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, Claude Opus 4.7 or Qwen3.8 Max?
Claude Opus 4.7 streams faster: 81 against 37 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Both accept 1M tokens of context.