Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 122B A10B
Compare Claude Opus 4.8 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3.5 122B A10B by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.8
Qwen: Qwen3.5 122B A10BRunner-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: Qwen3.5 122B A10B is 7.8x 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: Qwen3.5 122B A10B
Input
$0.40
13× cheaper
Output
$3.20
7.8× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 122B A10B is cheaper on both — 13× input, 7.8× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
43%
Claude Opus 4.8 uses 7.5x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.8
Qwen: Qwen3.5 122B A10B
60%Vocabulary49%
19wSentence Length15w
0.46Hedging0.29
4.7Bold6.2
3.2Lists4.8
0.78Emoji0.10
1.15Headings0.88
0.04Transitions0.20
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Research
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