Anthropic's most capable Opus yet, built for long-horizon autonomous agents and frontier coding.
Qwen's flagship 235B MoE model with 22B active parameters.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher (89.2 vs 72.3). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Qwen3 235B A22B has a lower blended cost. Claude Opus 4.8: $5.00 input / $25.00 output. Qwen3 235B A22B: $0.45 input / $1.82 output.
Claude Opus 4.8 has a larger context window: Claude Opus 4.8 supports 1M tokens vs Qwen3 235B A22B at 131K tokens.
Claude Opus 4.8 supports vision/image input, but Qwen3 235B A22B does not.
Key differences: Claude Opus 4.8 has a notably higher capability index (16.9 point gap); Qwen3 235B A22B is significantly cheaper; only Claude Opus 4.8 supports vision input. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3 235B A22B for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.