Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max
Claude Opus 5 
Qwen3.8 Max Verdict
- Claude Opus 5 (high) leads on quality: 68.3 vs 64.2.
- Claude Opus 5 (high) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, knowledge, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
- Qwen3.8 Max (max) is stronger in long context.
- Qwen3.8 Max (max) is 3.3× cheaper ($3.00 vs $10.00 per 1M blended).
- Claude Opus 5 (high) streams 1.5× faster (54 vs 37 tokens per second).
| Metric | Claude Opus 5 (high) | Qwen3.8 Max (max) |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 68.3 | 64.2 |
| Agents & tools score | 65.1 | 58.2 |
| Coding score | 69.2 | 64.6 |
| Composite score | 84.1 | 70.7 |
| Human preference score | 68.9 | 68.0 |
| Knowledge score | 76.9 | 62.7 |
| Long context score | 64.7 | 65.4 |
| Maths score | 71.1 | 65.1 |
| Multimodal score | 66.4 | 66.2 |
| Reasoning score | 72.7 | 72.2 |
| Blended price $/M | $10.00 | $3.00 |
| Output speed | 54 tok/s | 37 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 20.4 s | 58.9 s |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Terminal-Bench | 50.3% | 27.0% |
| OSWorld-Verified 2.0 | 29.0% | – |
| SciCode | 54.3% | 53.2% |
| WeirdML | 91.6% | – |
| APEX-Agents | – | 63.3% |
| ProofBench | – | 58.0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | – | 156.4 |
| LMArena Text | 1490 | 1483 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1515 | 1504 |
| LMArena Coding | 1534 | 1524 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1657 | 1672 |
| LMArena Vision | 1319 | 1314 |
| LMArena Agent | 8 | 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 | 48.1 | 45.4 |
| AA-LCR | 79.0% | 80.3% |
| MMMU-Pro | 82.4% | 82.8% |
| AA-Omniscience | 33.7 | 12.0 |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 93.7% | 92.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 52.8% | 43.1% |
| SciCode (AA) | 55.4% | 53.2% |
| LiveCodeBench | – | 87.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | – | 88.6% |
| IOI | – | 68.9% |
| LegalBench | – | 83.6% |
| CorpFin | – | 65.8% |
| TaxEval | – | 75.5% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | – | 67.4% |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | – | 85.6% |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | – | 93.7% |
| Vals Index | – | 48.3 |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.5% | – |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 88.3% | – |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 30.2% | – |
| CritPt | 28.3% | 20.0% |
| GDPval-AA v2.1 | 54.7% | 58.6% |
| τ³-Banking (AA) | 44.7% | 51.3% |
| ITBench SRE (AA) | – | 40.3% |
| Analyst Agent (AA) | – | 45.0% |
| APEX-Agents (AA) | – | 42.4% |
| Code Migration | – | 24.0% |
| CyberBench | – | 28.6% |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark | – | 60.1% |
| Finance Agent v2 | – | 50.6% |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark | – | 10.4% |
| Legal Research Bench | – | 47.6% |
| MedCode | – | 40.7% |
| MedScribe | – | 85.0% |
| MMMU-Pro (Vals) | – | 88.0% |
| MortgageTax | – | 64.0% |
| MysteryMechanism | – | 23.9% |
| ProgramBench | – | 0.0% |
| Public Benefits Bench | – | 67.1% |
| SAGE | – | 51.3% |
| SkillsBench | – | 42.0% |
| Tax Agent Bench | – | 66.0% |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals) | – | 34.3% |
| Terminal-Bench Science | – | 1.4% |
| Vals Multimodal Index | – | 65.4% |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 | – | 12.8% |
| Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | – | 64.7% |
| LMArena Maths | 1521 | 1497 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1471 | 1470 |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1497 | 1474 |
| LMArena Multi-turn | 1484 | 1492 |
| LMArena Longer Queries | 1504 | 1492 |
| LMArena Document | 1490 | – |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 72.8% | – |
| LMCA | 63.7% | – |
| DTBench | 97.9% | – |
| CursorBench | 44.7% | – |
| ALE-Bench | 2164.6 | – |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | 46.0% | 38.9% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA) | 87.6% | 88.8% |
| AutomationBench | 53.6% | 56.2% |
| GDP.pdf | 19.6% | 22.8% |
| MLCR | 59.4% | 20.0% |
| EnterpriseOps-Gym | – | 47.6% |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracy | 58.9% | 31.9% |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination | 38.8% | 71.2% |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 | 1561 | 1617 |
Data as of 2026-10-11. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max: questions
- Is Claude Opus 5 better than Qwen3.8 Max?
- Claude Opus 5 (high) leads on quality: 68.3 vs 64.2. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Opus 5 (high) is ahead overall as of 2026-10-11, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is Claude Opus 5 better than Qwen3.8 Max for coding?
- Claude Opus 5 scores higher in coding (69 vs 65 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is Claude Opus 5 better than Qwen3.8 Max for agentic tasks?
- Claude Opus 5 scores higher in agentic tasks (65 vs 58 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 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 5 or Qwen3.8 Max?
- Claude Opus 5 streams faster: 54 against 37 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Both accept 1M tokens of context.