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Anthropic Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Compare Anthropic Opus 4.6 from Anthropic and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Anthropic Opus 4.6
Anthropic · text, image → text

Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s latest state-of-the-art reasoning model. It features an adaptive “thinking” mode that dynamically decides when to think and how much to think. At the default effort level (high), Claude will almost always engage in thinking. At lower effort levels, it may skip thinking for simple problems. ⚠️ The minimum cache token for claude-opus-4-6 has been increased from 1,024 to 4,096 tokens.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

Input$0.338 /M
Output$1.014 /M
Cache read$0.0338 /M
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Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Anthropic Opus 4.6
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$5
$0.338
Output /M
$25
$1.014
Cache read /M
$0.5
$0.0338
Context length
200,000
983,616
Max output
32,000
131,072
Time to First Token
3.1 s
2.4 s
Throughput
39.7 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
anthropic-opus-4-6qwen3.8-max-preview
1440148015201560
Overall
14801499
Coding
15201548
Math
14971504
Hard prompts
15021528
Instruction following
14771501
Multi-turn
14931510
Creative writing
14661478
Longer query
14921519
Chinese
15361549
English
14881508
Vision
anthropic-opus-4-6qwen3.8-max-preview
12801300132013401360
Overall
12971300
OCR
13131315
Diagram
13261333
Homework
13141334
WebDev Arena
anthropic-opus-4-6qwen3.8-max-preview
1500158016601740
Overall
15361670
React
15301679
HTML
15421628
Gaming
17351735
Simulations
16671667
Data analytics
16151615

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo
Anthropic Opus 4.6
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Anthropic Opus 4.6, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; Anthropic Opus 4.6: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Anthropic Opus 4.6: 1548; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Anthropic Opus 4.6 accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Anthropic Opus 4.6 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and Anthropic Opus 4.6 at 39.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Anthropic Opus 4.6 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Anthropic Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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