Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.8
93
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
66
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.8 #3 · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #23
Pick Claude Opus 4.8 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Agentic
+28.6 difference
Coding
+9.5 difference
Knowledge
+9.6 difference
Multimodal
Claude Opus 4.8
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$5 / $25
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1M
262K
Pick Claude Opus 4.8 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Claude Opus 4.8 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 93 to 66. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.8's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 80.1 against 51.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 57.9% to 21.4%.
Claude Opus 4.8 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
Claude Opus 4.8 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 93 to 66. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 57.9% and 21.4%.
Claude Opus 4.8 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.1 versus 60.5. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.8 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.4 versus 66.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.8 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.1 versus 51.5. Inside this category, GDPval-AA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B are effectively tied for multimodal and grounded tasks here, both landing at 76.1 on average.
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