# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.7 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-8-vs-qwen3-7-plus
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 15
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.8 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.7 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 72.3 to 62.29.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 63.2 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 37.7 for Qwen3.7 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 57.9% and 34.7%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 72.3 | 62.29 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 52 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Opus 4.8
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 63.2 (Supported · #16/151)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 37.7 (Supported · #126/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 21.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 74.6% | 70.3% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| BrowseComp | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 93.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 83.4% | 73.3% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Finance Agent v2 | 53.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 82.2% | 73.2% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Toolathlon | 59.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 72.97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 21.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | 2.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 71.9% | 52.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 61.8% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 72.9% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 45.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 62.3% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 81.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 66.5 (Supported · #12/183)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 53.1 (Estimated · #51/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 88.6% | 77.7% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 69.2% | 57.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE Multilingual | 84.4% | 75.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE Multimodal | 38.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 74.6% | 70.3% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| cursorBench31 | 58.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 62.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 46.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 41.1% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 51.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 87.8 (#3/48)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 72.5 (#18/48)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 66.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 87.9% | 79.0% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| CharXiv | 89.9% | 85.9% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMSearch-Plus | Coming soon | 41.4% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 86.9% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 55.1 (#20/22)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 1.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 9.1% | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 71.7 (Supported · #9/181)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 56.8 (Estimated · #50/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 93.6% | 90.3% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| GPQA-D | 93.6% | 90.3% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| HLE | 57.9% | 34.7% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| HLE w/o tools | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 71.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 89.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 75.2 (#59/120)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 91.1 (#17/120)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.1% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 78.9 (#3/12)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | 87.6% | 83.0% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 58.8% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 88.8% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 65.4 (#2/7)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 78.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | 96.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 47.241% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 31.250% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 22.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Claude Opus 4.8 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.7 Plus?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 63.2 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 37.7 for Qwen3.7 Plus.

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

Claude Opus 4.8 currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.7 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.7 Plus currently has 52 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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