Anthropic's most capable Opus yet, built for long-horizon autonomous agents and frontier coding.
Next-generation 80B MoE model with always-on reasoning mode.
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No captured outputs for these models yet.
Both Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking has a lower blended cost. Claude Opus 4.8: $5.00 input / $25.00 output. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: $0.10 input / $0.78 output.
Claude Opus 4.8 has a larger context window: Claude Opus 4.8 supports 1M tokens vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking at 131K tokens.
Claude Opus 4.8 supports vision/image input, but Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking does not.
Key differences: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking 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 Next 80B A3B Thinking for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.