Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

On input price, Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is ~2.5× cheaper. Verified 2026-10-21.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 $5.00/$25.00vsQwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B $2.00/$6.00

Verdict

On blended price (3:1 input:output), Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is ~3.3× cheaper ($2.00/$6.00 vs $5.00/$25.00 per 1M tokens). Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 scores higher on intelligence (63 vs 58, Artificial Analysis) — pay more only if that gap matters for your workload.

Pricing

Per-million-token list prices, verified 2026-10-21. Green marks the better value.

Metric	Anthropic: Claude Opus 5	Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Input / 1M	$5.00	$2.00
Output / 1M	$25.00	$6.00
Cache read / 1M	$0.500	$0.250
Blended (3:1)	$10.00/1M	$3.00/1M

Estimated monthly cost	Anthropic: Claude Opus 5	Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Chatbot10,000 reqs · 800/400 tok	$140.00	$40.00
Coding agent5,000 reqs · 8000/2000 tok	$450.00	$140.00
RAG pipeline30,000 reqs · 4000/500 tok	$975.00	$330.00

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Specifications & capabilities

Metric	Anthropic: Claude Opus 5	Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Context window	1M	1.0M
Max output	128K	909K
Vision input	✓	–
Tool calling	✓	✓
Reasoning	✓	✓

Quality

Intelligence Index by Artificial Analysis (independent evaluations, 0–100).

Intelligence Index — higher is better

Anthropic: Claude Opus 563

Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B58

Sources: Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 on Artificial Analysis · Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B on Artificial Analysis

Performance

Measured by Artificial Analysis on live endpoints.

Output speed — higher is better

Anthropic: Claude Opus 585 tok/s

Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B125 tok/s

Latency (TTFT) — lower is better

Anthropic: Claude Opus 51,200 ms

Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B800 ms

Metric	Anthropic: Claude Opus 5	Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Cost per task	$0.000025	$0.000009

Provider

Infrastructure metrics for the organizations behind these models.

Metric	Anthropic	Qwen (Alibaba)
Listed endpoints	8	18
Reliability	99.8%	99.3%
Avg latency	520 ms	450 ms
Pricing tiers	standard, batch	standard, free

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