Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare Claude Opus 4.8 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.8
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.8 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 31x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.8
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
25× cheaper
Output
$0.80
31× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 25× input, 31× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
71%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 2.6x more transitions
Claude Opus 4.8
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
60%Vocabulary55%
19wSentence Length18w
0.46Hedging0.52
4.7Bold6.7
3.2Lists4.3
0.78Emoji1.04
1.15Headings0.92
0.04Transitions0.11
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