# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.8 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.8 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-8-vs-qwen3-8-max
- Last updated: September 17, 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. Qwen3.8 Max 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 72.34 to 71.76.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 55.5 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 86.5 for Qwen3.8 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 57.9% and 43.6%.
- Qwen3.8 Max 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 | Qwen3.8 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 72.34 | 71.76 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 60 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 62.8 (Supported · #14/153)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.3 (Supported · #9/153)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 21.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 74.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 93.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 83.4% | 86.1% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Finance Agent v2 | 53.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | 19.4% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 71.9% | 67.4% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 70.2% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 52.4% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 27.3% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Claude Opus 4.8
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 66.4 (Supported · #11/152)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 60.8 (Supported · #20/152)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 69.2% | 67.7% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE Multilingual | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 38.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 74.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | 87.9% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 88.6% | 85.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 56.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 15.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 87.8 (#3/48)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 87.4 (#5/48)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 66.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 87.9% | 84.5% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| CharXiv | 89.9% | 93.5% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 80.5% | 88.4% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 95.2% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 97.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 91.3% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 24.0% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | Coming soon | 49.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 69.0% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 63.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 88.7% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 82.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 55.5 (#18/20)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 86.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 1.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 66.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Opus 4.8
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 71.4 (Supported · #9/183)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 68.8 (Supported · #17/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 93.6% | 92.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| GPQA-D | 93.6% | 92.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| HLE | 57.9% | 43.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| HLE w/o tools | 49.8% | 43.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.4% | 93.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.6% | 88.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 75.4 (#61/123)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 90.7 (#18/123)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 65.4 (#2/7)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.8 Max | 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 |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.8 Max?

Claude Opus 4.8 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.8 Max?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 55.5 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 86.5 for Qwen3.8 Max.

### 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 Qwen3.8 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 60 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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