Which is better, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.5 2B?

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.5 2B

21 SHARED BENCHMARKS

Across 21 shared benchmarks, Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on 21 and Qwen3.5 2B on 0. The widest gap is scicode, where Claude Opus 4.8 scores 54.4 against 7.2.

ANTHROPICVSALIBABA21 SHARED21–0 HEAD-TO-HEAD

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MARGINQwen3.5 2B

AA Agentic Index42.60.8

AA Intelligence426.9

AA-LCR77.725.6

AA-Omniscience28.8-60.2

Artificial Analysis Coding Index74.32.9

critpt20.90

gdpval49.50

GPQA Diamond93.651.6

HLE57.95

IFBench62.241.3

include87.655.4

longbench_v269.138.7

MMMU-Pro78.943

OmniScience Accuracy48.88.1

OmniScience Non-Hallucination60.725.8

scicode54.47.2

TauBench V3 - Banking34.22.5

Terminal-Bench 2.1853

Terminal-Bench Hard58.33.8

τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)94.481.6

τ³-Bench27.66.2

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 withALL PAIRINGS →

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.6 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude 3.5 Sonnet Claude Fable 5 Claude Opus 4.5 Claude Opus 5

Across the fieldQwen3.6 27B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 Max Preview Qwen3.7 Plus Preview Claude Opus 4 Qwen3.5 4B Gemini 3.6 Flash Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Compare Qwen3.5 2B withALL PAIRINGS →

AlibabaQwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.6 Plus

Across the fieldGPT-4o GPT-5.6 Sol Gemini 3.1 Pro GPT-5.4 GPT-5.2 Claude Opus 4.6 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude 3.5 Sonnet