Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.7 Plus costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #72 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 10 categories and Qwen3.7 Plus in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 50.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 80% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 34.4% for Qwen3.7 Plus.
  • Qwen3.7 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.7 Plus specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index60.745.3
Released2026-05-282026-06-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.60
Results tracked6532

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.6 (#206)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
FrontierCode46.5%10.2%
SciCode53.5%45.5%
LMArena Coding14901473
DeepSWE59%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Qwen3.7 Plus: 21.4 (#138)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
OSWorld 2.020.6%2.8%
APEX-Agents48.9%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Qwen3.7 Plus: 39.3 (#59)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%74.8%
CritPt20.9%9.1%
Chess Puzzles34%24%
LMArena Hard Prompts14821460
Mystery Game Puzzles36%17%
DTBench94.9%84%
LMCA57.5%37.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21147.37
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Qwen3.7 Plus: 50.5 (#56)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.9 (#51)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
GPQA Diamond91%87.9%
LMArena Expert15021467
SimpleQA Verified53%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Qwen3.7 Plus: 41.8 (#33)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision12941279
LMArena Document14751444
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.8 (#38)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Non-English14501445
LMArena Chinese15071510
LMArena French14811473
LMArena German14721471
LMArena Japanese14401413
LMArena Korean14321415
LMArena Russian14741457
LMArena Spanish14661457

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Qwen3.7 Plus: 75.8 (#52)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following14761440

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Qwen3.7 Plus: 44.5 (#65)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Longer Query14831455

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Qwen3.7 Plus: 64.3 (#56)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text14611455
LMArena Creative Writing14541439
LMArena Multi-Turn14761460
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Qwen3.7 Plus?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.7 Plus costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.7 Plus better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.7 Plus share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Plus has 32.

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