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Updated Sep 2026

Claude Opus 4.1vsQwen3.8 Omni Flash

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is cheaper than Claude Opus 4.1 at $0.15/M vs $15/M input tokens.

Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash compared across 9 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Input price$15/M tokens$0.15/M tokens
Output price$75/M tokens$0.47/M tokens
Context window200K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2025Sep 2026
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Opening lines from 4 of the 9 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Claude Opus 4.1200 words
Midnight Velvet Pasta A silky, umami-rich pasta that comes together like magic Ingredients (serves 4): Spaghetti or linguine - 1 pound Soy sauce - 3 tablespoons Butter - 4 tablespoons Garlic - 4 cloves Black pepper - 1 teaspoon (freshly cracked) Honey - 1 tablespoon Dried red pepper flakes - ½ teaspoon Instructions…
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Qwen3.8 Omni Flash175 words
Buttery Cloud Pancakes A soft, golden pancake stack made with just 7 pantry staples—no special mix-ins, no fancy tools, just simple comfort. Ingredients All-purpose flour Granulated sugar Baking powder Fine salt Milk Egg Butter Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 12 minutes Serves 2–3 Instructions In a bowl, whisk together…
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Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

Claude Opus 4.1396 words
Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch: "94% accuracy" for EEG-based text prediction (Slide 3) Why it's weak: Current state-of-the-art non-invasive EEG systems struggle to achieve even 70% accuracy for simple binary choices, let alone complex text prediction Academic research shows consumer-grade…
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Qwen3.8 Omni Flash2,971 words
The three weakest claims—ranked by how likely they are to fail investor diligence—are: “94% accuracy… works with any language, any device.” “TAM: $180B” based on 3.5B smartphone users. “FDA clearance” consuming 40% of the Series A raise.
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Claude Opus 4.1414 words
Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Kickstart Plan Week 1-2: Foundation Building Start small and build consistency with these three pillars: 🥗 NUTRITION: Simple Whole Foods Week 1: Add one serving of vegetables to lunch and dinner (frozen veggies count!)
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Qwen3.8 Omni Flash712 words
A Simple 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Goal: Build sustainable habits—not perfection—around diet, exercise, and recovery/sleep. Time commitment: Small daily actions plus 2–3 short workouts per week. The 3 Key Areas Diet: Add more good foods before restricting Beginner rule: Focus on adding, not removing.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Claude Opus 4.1751 words
For the Software Engineer Think of an LLM as a massive distributed system where instead of routing requests or managing state, you're computing probability distributions over a vocabulary of ~50,000 tokens.
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Qwen3.8 Omni Flash913 words
For the experienced software engineer A large language model is best thought of as a gigantic, parameterized probabilistic function that maps a sequence of tokens to a probability distribution over the next token.
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Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash costs 160x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude Opus 4.1
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Input
$0.15
100× cheaper
Output
$0.47
160× cheaper

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is cheaper on both: 100× input, 160× output.

Where to run it

2 hosts

Claude Opus 4.11 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Amazon Bedrock$15.00 in·$75.00 out·200k·100% up
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Clouddegraded$0.15 in·$0.47 out·1M·99% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 25 Sep 2026.

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Claude Opus 4.1 is developed by Anthropic while Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is developed by Qwen. Claude Opus 4.1 has a 200K token context window vs Qwen3.8 Omni Flash's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 9 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 9 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Claude Opus 4.1 costs $15/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash costs $0.15/M input tokens. Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is $14.85/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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