Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen3.8 Max and Claude Opus 5 score 79.3% vs 70.9% averaged across five Vision Evals tasks (#9 and #21 of 65 models), so Qwen3.8 Max leads overall.
- Qwen3.8 Max wins 4 of the 5 tasks, with its widest lead on object detection (76.7% vs 54.4%).
- Qwen3.8 Max is about a third of the cost: $0.0080 vs $0.020 overall average cost per sample.
- Claude Opus 5 is faster: 8.2s vs 18.9s per sample.
Roboflow Vision Evals. Full breakdown below.
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Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max on Vision Evals
Roboflow Vision Evals. Full breakdown below.
Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max Comparison Table
Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 3, 2026
| Property | Claude Opus 5 | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 984K |
| Parameters | Unknown | 2.4T total, ~95B active |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | free for commercial use |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $5.00 | No published price |
| Output $/1M | $25.00 | No published price |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Image Tagging | Not listed | Supported |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 70.9% | 79.3% |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.020 | $0.0080 |
| Avg speed / sample | 8.21s | 18.95s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 54.4% | 76.7% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.5 to 77.1 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 78.4% ±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.1 to 78.9 |
| Counting (low) | 70.3% | 81.1% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 82.4 |
| Counting (high) | – | 81.1% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.1 to 81.1 |
| Identification (low) | 90.6% | 88.5% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6 |
| Identification (high) | – | 89.6% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6 |
| OCR (low) | 68.0% | 74.0% |
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| OCR (high) | 65.8% | 71.8% |
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| Reasoning (low) | 71.5% | 75.9% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 73.5 to 77.5 |
| Reasoning (high) | 74.2% | 80.3% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.2 to 82.1 |
Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max: Overview
Claude Opus 5 is a large language model with multimodal vision capabilities developed by Anthropic, released on July 24, 2026 as the fourth model in the Claude 5 family. It sits in the Opus tier of Anthropic's lineup, positioned below the Mythos-class Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, and is framed by Anthropic as the go-to model for most knowledge work and automation tasks. The model approaches Fable 5's capabilities at a lower cost. It becomes the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model available on Claude Pro. The model ships with a 1 million token context window and an adjustable "effort" parameter that allows users to trade reasoning depth for speed and token savings. Early enterprise customers reported that Opus 5 achieved comparable performance to Opus 4.8's maximum-reasoning mode while generating significantly fewer tokens on average, and demonstrated higher accuracy on financial modeling tasks with fewer tool calls and less time.
Claude Opus 5 supports multimodal inputs including images and text, and is designed for agentic workflows, coding, scientific research, and complex enterprise tasks. Anthropic reports the model scores 10.2 percentage points higher than Opus 4.8 on an internal chemistry benchmark, making it the most capable generally available model for scientific research in the Claude lineup. Cyber classifiers on Opus 5 are designed to intervene approximately 85 percent less often than those on Fable 5, with fallback to Opus 4.8 when a classifier triggers. The model does not retain user data for 30 days, unlike Fable 5. It is available across Anthropic's platforms including Claude Code and Claude Cowork, as well as cloud partners.
Qwen3.8 Max is the flagship tier of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 family, a sparse mixture-of-experts multimodal model with roughly 2.4 trillion total parameters of which about 95 billion activate per token, which keeps serving cost and latency well below what the total parameter count would imply. It builds on the architectural foundation established by Qwen3.5 and accepts text, images, video, and documents as input while producing text output. Reported context handling reaches close to one million tokens, with a maximum generation length of 131,072 tokens, so the model is aimed at long-horizon agentic work such as repository-scale coding, multi-step research, data analysis, and office document workflows.
For vision work the model performs image and video understanding, document and chart interpretation, text recognition inside images, and grounded visual question answering, and Alibaba reports gains concentrated in multimodal and agentic evaluation categories rather than general reasoning. It is the first model in the Max tier of the Qwen line for which the team states weights will be released publicly, alongside a smaller Qwen3.8 27B checkpoint. No training or safety model card has been published.
Frequently Asked Questions
On Roboflow's Vision Evals, Qwen3.8 Max performed better. It scores higher on 4 of the five vision tasks and averages 79.3% (#9 of 65) against 70.9% (#21 of 65) for Claude Opus 5. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.
No. On the Vision Evals Object Detection benchmark at low effort, Qwen3.8 Max leads with 76.7% against 54.4%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.
Qwen3.8 Max is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0080 per sample against $0.020. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.
Claude Opus 5 is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 8.2s per inference against 18.9s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and OCR in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.