qwen3.8-max vs claude-sonnet-4-5
Side-by-side comparison of qwen3.8-max and claude-sonnet-4-5: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. qwen3.8-max outperforms claude-sonnet-4-5 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks.
qwen3.8-max
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$6.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
alibaba/qwen3.8-max
claude-sonnet-4-5
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
qwen3.8-max46.9%
claude-sonnet-4-527.3%
Coding Indexcoding
qwen3.8-max71.8%
claude-sonnet-4-552.1%
Math Indexmath
qwen3.8-maxN/A
claude-sonnet-4-588.0%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
qwen3.8-max92.7%
claude-sonnet-4-583.4%
AIME 2025math
qwen3.8-maxN/A
claude-sonnet-4-588.0%
LiveCodeBenchcoding
qwen3.8-maxN/A
claude-sonnet-4-571.4%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
qwen3.8-maxN/A
claude-sonnet-4-535.6%
τ²-Benchagentic
qwen3.8-maxN/A
claude-sonnet-4-578.1%
SciCodecoding
qwen3.8-max53.2%
claude-sonnet-4-545.7%
MMLU Proknowledge
qwen3.8-maxN/A
claude-sonnet-4-587.5%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
qwen3.8-max43.0%
claude-sonnet-4-517.8%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| qwen3.8-max | claude-sonnet-4-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $2.00 | $3.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $6.00 | $15.00 |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 131K tokens | 64K tokens |
| Vision input | N/A | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | N/A | Yes |
| Provider | Alibaba Cloud | Anthropic PBC |
Questions people ask
Is qwen3.8-max better than claude-sonnet-4-5?
qwen3.8-max outperforms claude-sonnet-4-5 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: qwen3.8-max and claude-sonnet-4-5 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, qwen3.8-max or claude-sonnet-4-5?
qwen3.8-max is cheaper. qwen3.8-max costs $2.00/$6.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while claude-sonnet-4-5 costs $3.00/$15.00.
Can I use qwen3.8-max and claude-sonnet-4-5 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "alibaba/qwen3.8-max" and "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
qwen3.8-max supports up to 1.0M tokens of context. claude-sonnet-4-5 supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
Switch between qwen3.8-max and claude-sonnet-4-5 with one line of code
Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models. Change the model parameter, not your code.