# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-8-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: October 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 18
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.8 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.8 leads overall 69.12 to 53.74.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 61.6 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 33.9 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 82.2% and 48.2%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 69.12 | 53.74 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 40 | 50 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Opus 4.8
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 61.6 (Supported · #20/123)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 33.9 (Supported · #79/123)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 21.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 74.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 93.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Finance Agent v2 | 53.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 82.2% | 48.2% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Toolathlon | 59.9% | 39.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Gert Labs | 72.97% | 50.60% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| ResearchClawBench | 21.1% | 18.0% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 71.9% | 53.2% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 58.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 57.2% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 41.5% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.3% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Claude Opus 4.8
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 60.8 (Supported · #19/146)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 41 (Supported · #62/146)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 88.6% | 78.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 69.2% | 56.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE Multilingual | 84.4% | 73.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE Multimodal | 38.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 74.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 58.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 62.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 46.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.8% | 86.0% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 88.6% | 73.4% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 32.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 37.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 25.56% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 62.9 (#24/28)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 74.9 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 1.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 92.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 91.2 (#5/54)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 76.1 (#21/54)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 66.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 87.9% | 68.2% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| CharXiv | 89.9% | 81.5% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Opus 4.8
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 70.7 (Supported · #14/177)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 53.9 (Supported · #62/177)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 93.6% | 90.4% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| GPQA-D | 93.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 57.9% | 28.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| HLE w/o tools | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.4% | 87.4% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.6% | 87.7% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 71.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/17)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 57.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 75.4 (#61/127)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.8 (#45/127)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 65.7 (#2/7)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 63.1 (#5/7)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | 96.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 47.241% | 26.207% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 31.250% | 8.333% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Claude Opus 4.8 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 61.6 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 33.9 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.8 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.8 currently has 40 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 50 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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