Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.8 Max in 10 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 73.2 to 42.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 64.4% for Claude Opus 4 and 100% for Qwen3.8 Max.
  • Qwen3.8 Max is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
  • Qwen3.8 Max accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.156.8
Released2025-05-222026-08-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K1M
Max output32K131K
Input $ / M tokens$15$2
Output $ / M tokens$75$6
Results tracked5639

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Coding14421502
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
DeepSWE—57.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
LMArena WebDev—1674
FrontierSWE—17.8%
SciCode—53.2%
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
APEX-Agents—63.3%
τ²-bench Banking—55.1%
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
GDP.pdf—23.2%
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
CritPt0.3%20%
LMArena Hard Prompts13991496
DTBench81.6%92%
LMCA37.4%46.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67156.41
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—88.3%
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
Chess Puzzles—40%
EnigmaEval5.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—38%
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%100%
LMArena Math13901499
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—74.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46.3%
ProofBench—58%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
GPQA Diamond76.3%92.7%
LMArena Expert13861507
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
SimpleQA Verified—47.3%
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Vision11921314
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—
Furniture Assembly—20%

Multilingual Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Non-English13621472
LMArena Chinese13861538
LMArena French13721503
LMArena German13911483
LMArena Japanese13311467
LMArena Korean13211461
LMArena Russian13921481
LMArena Spanish13891492

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14061479
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Longer Query14221489
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Text13771483
LMArena Creative Writing13871479
LMArena Multi-Turn13961489
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Qwen3.8 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.5 versus 47.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.8 Max does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Qwen3.8 Max share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 Max has 39.

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